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Kirche Liebfrauen
Zehnderweg 9, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland Phone: +41 43 244 75 00About
Kirche Liebfrauen is a Church.In the 19th century, increasingly immigrant Catholics from Eastern and Central Switzerland to Zurich , which is why the need for a Catholic church was built in the Reformed Zwingli Zurich. 1842 leased the Zurich government the Augustinian church of the Catholic community , which at that time accounted for about 5 % of the population . After the removal of the Old Catholics in 1871, the Roman Catholics in 1874 , built in the working class neighborhood Aussersihl the Church of St. Peter and Paul. The growing number of Catholics called for soon the construction of other churches. [2 ] Until it was time, found for Catholics the right of the Limmat River resident since 1881, Sundays and festive services in the cemetery chapel of the Hohe Promenade instead (now the Anglican Church of St. Andrew's ), since 1887 was also the possibility of the service visit to the private Catholic hospital Theodosianum , and 1889 stood them with the journeymen house Wolfbach a first community center.
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