Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory, Catholic church and rectory in Rock Springs, Wyoming, United States.
Saints Cyril and Methodius is a brick church in Rock Springs with Romanesque Revival design and a 125-foot spire above the main entrance. The building features four bells in the belfry and displays decorative stained-glass windows with rounded arches in the sanctuary.
Slavic immigrants who found the existing Catholic church dominated by Irish parishioners and clergy built their own church in 1925, two blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows, replacing a temporary church of 1911. The basement of the older structure was reused and expanded. The red brick rectory, designed by Daniel Spani, was built in 1920, five years before the church.
The parish takes its name from the ninth-century missionaries Cyril and Methodius, apostles to the Slavs. Slavic immigrants founded it because the existing Catholic church in Rock Springs was dominated by Irish parishioners and clergy, and they wanted a church closer to their own traditions. The church is also known as North Side Church.
The church stands two blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, with the 125-foot spire marking the main entrance on the sanctuary's front side. The rectory, a red brick bungalow from 1920, sits on the same grounds; its front porch was later enclosed. The building is an active parish, so time an exterior visit around services.
The bricks used in construction came from a factory in Ogden, Utah, reflecting regional trade connections. This detail is often overlooked but is part of the building's construction story.
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