St. Mary Parish, Ware

St. Mary Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Ware, Massachusetts, United States.

Founded 1905, it is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts.

The first religious service for the Poles was conducted on January 1, 1905, in the lower part of All Saints Church.

In the same year the lower church was remodeled and made into eight class rooms.

The Polish immigrants of Ware at present number about 2700 people, for the most part, came from the Southern part of Poland, from the counties of Dabrowa, Tarnow, Rzeszow and Jaslo.