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Michele Cannizzaro and Giovanna Taglieri Marriage Certificate

				Michele Cannizzaro – age 30 – Painter – 122 Cherry Street, Manhattan
				Born Militello, Italy @1888 – Father: Sebastiano Cannizzaro – Mother: Francesca Di Raimondo

				Giovaninna Tagliere – age 20 – 129 Monroe Street, Manhattan
				Born Militello, Italy @1898 – Father: Francesco Tagliere – Mother: Agata Mancuso

				Marriage January 20, 1918 at Transfiguration Church, 29 Mott Street, Manhattan

Michele Cannizzaro and Giovaninna Taglieri Marriage Certificate

The Transfiguration Church was originally built in 1801 in the Georgian style of architecture for the Zion English Lutheran Church, a Lutheran congregation that subsequently converted en masse to the Protestant Episcopal Church. The church then became known as Zion Protestant Episcopal Church.

Towards the middle of the 19th Century, poor immigrants, primarily Irish, were pouring into New York. They were drawn to an area in Lower Manhattan called "Five Points." Protestants who had been living in the area for generations, gradually moved further north. The Zion Protestant Episcopal Church was rebuilt after a major fire in 1815 which gutted the church and 35 dwellings in the surrounding Five Points neighborhood. The Episcopal congregation sold the building in 1853 to the Roman Catholic Church of the Immigrants parish, which had been founded in 1827 by the Rev. Felix Varela y Morales to minister to the poor Irish in the Five Points who were predominantly Roman Catholic. The parish later changed its name to the Church of the Transfiguration. By the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Italian immigrants began to make up the majority of congreants.

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