Around 100 parishioners, preservation advocates, and East Village residents rallied on Sunday to oppose the cessation of services and the potential sale of the Most Holy Redeemer Church.

Those seeking to preserve the building and continue religious uses held up a sea of signs, seeking to save the church that some described as one of the East Village’s “oldest and most prominent churches” as well as at one point one of the city’s tallest and largest at 250-feet tall, although it is 232-feet today.

They are also making a push to get the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to declare the 1851 structure, altered in 1913, a landmark, which would, except in very rare circumstances, prevent its demolition.

The Archdiocese of New York had previously stopped holding Masses and other

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