Catholic Church on East Side to break ground on sanctuary Sunday

This is a rendering of the interior of the new St. Frances Xavier Mother Cabrini church.

St. Frances Xavier Mother Cabrini Church Pastor Frank Lopez showed a rendering of the new church Wednesday. The diocese will have a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday.

St. Frances Xavier Mother Cabrini Catholic Church will break ground on a $4.5 million sanctuary on Sunday.

Construction is expected to take from 12 to 14 months.

"We have been working tremendously hard to make our vision of our church come true," said the Rev. Frank Lopez. "It's been a while since we moved to our temporary church which is our multi-purpose building."

Rosie Torres, director of religious formation, said it's exciting to finally be able to break ground.

"The church was first established about 1993," she said.

Lopez said it's taken longer than they had hoped to start construction at 12200 Vista del Sol but for a good reason.

"We didn't want to just build a building, put church furniture in there and call it a church. We wanted a church that represents the community and shares the start and history of our faith with the missions," Lopez said.

The church hired Hyndman and Hyndman Architects, a California firm that has designed numerous churches including Mormon temples. Renderings of the new church inside the multi-purpose building feature a mission style building that will contain pews surrounding the altar in the center. A baptismal font will be at the entrance of the sanctuary.

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