Holy Rosary Church (Tacoma, Washington)
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Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Tacoma, Washington, within the Archdiocese of Seattle. The church is a landmark of the city seen by travelers along Interstate 5 and has been described as Tacoma's Notre Dame.[1]
The parish was established in 1891 by Bishop Egidius Junger when he invited Benedictine monks from St. John's Abbey in Minnesota to serve Tacoma's German-speaking population.[2][3] The parish remained under the pastorship of the Benedictine monks until 1998.[4] The current church building was built in 1920 after the original wooden church was deemed unsafe.[5] The church was designed by parishioner C. Frank Mahon of the Tacoma architecture firm Lundberg & Mahon.[3]
