Board asks how Assumption Church will choose statuary from Archdiocese warehouse
Architect and pastor said statuary for three grotto locations will come from the Archdiocese warehouse in Staten Island; the board requested clarity on who selects the saints and asked for scale limits to avoid oversized pieces.
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Architect Chris Borchardt told the board that the Archdiocese of New York maintains a Staten Island warehouse of salvaged statuary and that the church intends to select pieces from that collection for three designated grotto locations. "Archdiocese of New York has a warehouse in Staten Island that basically houses all the churches that have been closed...All the stuff that they can pull out of that heads to this warehouse," Borchardt said.
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