The Shrine of the Blessed Mother, also known as Our Lady of the Parkway and the Queen of Peace, is located at 6 Wakefield Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After Toma’s house on Wakefield Street was razed for the creation of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway, she kept ownership over an undeveloped plot of land that would eventually be where the shrine was built.

According to the 1956 Sun-Telegraph article, Anna Cybak and Sophie Toma, along with their friend Mary Sunyoga (and her son, Steve), were the ones who cleared the lot and erected the statue.

[4] Another article, featured in The Morning Call in 2004, lays out the idea that the spring began flowing from the rock when Josephine DeNardo, an early visitor, brought flowers to the shrine.

[1] A 2019 KDKA 2 CBS Pittsburgh article stated that a non-profit group led by Francis Caiazza, a formal federal magistrate, was attempting to buy the site in order to preserve it.