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The Church of the Holy Family in\nDerry is sited at the end of the Ballymagroarty estate. Central to the local Primary\nSchool, shopping centre and restaurant, it now serves some 9000 parishioners from\nnot just Ballymagroarty, but also from Hazelbank, Foyle Springs, the Branch, Templegrove,\nWhitehouse Park, Coshquin and the Springtown Road.<\/span><\/p>


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The splendid church building, which\nseats 650, was designed and built by Hegarty Masterson Doherty Architects and McCormick\nBuilding Contractors. It has 14 windows with a Station of the Cross, designed by\nDesmond Kyne, being the centre piece of each.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>


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The inside ceiling is panelled\nin red wood and the seats are positioned in a semi-circular fashion which corresponds\nto the image of the church being a place which facilitates a communion of God\'s\npeople gathered to praise His name.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>


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The roof of the church rises to\nits highest point over the sanctory, and it is finished with a glass re-inforced\nplastic fleche. Adjoining the church is the two-storey parochial house whose steel-framed\nbrick piers have been formed around steel columns on the perimeter of the building.\nIt\'s roof rises rises to a central roof-light over hanging a staircase.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>


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The land around the church has\nbeen landscaped and planted, and recently added flood-lights enhance the beauty\nof the church building by night.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>


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The Holy Family Parish Church was\nopened and solemly dedicated by Bishop Daly on September 25th 1983.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>


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