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Old St. Teresa Church is located in downtown Albany, Georgia on Residence Ave. The building is the oldest church building in Albany, and the oldest Catholic Church still in use in Georgia. It is called Old St. Teresa Church, because the church changed locations in Albany. The church was kept in use and at least one mass is a held a week.

History
Construction on the church was started in 1859. The land that the church was built on was given by the founder of Albany, Col. Nelson Tift. The bricks that make up the church were hand-made by slaves on a plantation near Newton, Georgia. The construction of the church was halted during the Civil war before the interior was completed. The building was then used as a hospital for wounded Confederate Soldiers, and then was completed after the war. The church was then dedicated under the patronage of St. Teresa of Avila on November 19, 1882 by William ll. Gross, D.D., who was the Bishop of Savannah at the time.

Currently
A new larger parish church was dedicated into use in 1958, but this church was kept as a second church. A mass is conducted every Wednesday at noon at the Residence Ave. address.