Holy Cross Church (San Jose, California)

Holy Cross Church is a Catholic church in the Northside neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States, that serves the Holy Cross Parish of the Diocese of San Jose.

[1] The parish serves a multiethnic congregation and is considered a mainstay of the local Italian-American community.

[2] Holy Cross Parish was founded in 1906 as a mission of Saint Patrick Parish to serve Italian immigrants in the Northside neighborhood of San Jose.

[1] The structure was gutted by a four-alarm fire on November 16, 2014,[3] and demolished in June 2015.

Hanging above the altar is a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) antique Italian gilded wood crucifix that had hung in the original church but was spared by the fire.