"[4] A quote from Cardinal Spellman greets worshipers at the front door: "This Holy Shrine is dedicated to Our Lady of Victory in Thanksgiving for Victory won by our valiant dead, our soldier’s blood, our country’s tears, shed to defend men’s rights and win back men’s hearts to God.

"[1][3] A Soldier's Shrine is in the lower chapel, and the Teresa Benedicta Auschwitz Memorial in the lobby commemorates a victim of the Holocaust.

The present brick Georgian Revival church was built in 1944–1946 to the designs by the prominent New York City architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins[3] at a planned cost of $430,000.

[1] An earlier organ was produced for the church by George Kilgen & Son of St. Louis, Missouri in 1955.

Brooklyn's appears to be the oldest, with the present church building, located at Throop Avenue and McDonough Street, built from 1891–1895 to the design of Thomas E.