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Our Lady of Loreto Church was a Roman Catholic church located in the Ocean Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, near the neighborhood of Brownsville, in New York City.

History
Our Lady of Loreto Church was founded in 1894 as a national parish for Italian-Americans in Brooklyn. Upon its establishment, it became the fourth Italian national church in the Diocese of Brooklyn. It served a growing population of Italian immigrants who were often unwelcome by the predominantly Irish churches of New York City, and which relegated Italians' masses to the basements of their churches.

Closure
In August 2008, the Diocese of Brooklyn announced that the church building would be closed and the parish merged into Our Lady of Presentation in Bedford–Stuyvesant.