Uptown Perth Amboy
State Street! A view of St. Stephen's. This is the interior of the church. I really like the Gothic architecture of this church, both on the interior and exterior. The area that I like to call Uptown Perth Amboy stretches from the NJTransit RR to the west and the Arthur Kill to the east. It is bounded by the town border to the north and Washington Street to the south! Is part of the Blessed John Paul II Parish, is one of the busiest churches in Perth Amboy! The Blessed John Paul II Parish includes the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Church on Wayne. There were only a few Poles living in Perth Amboy in the 1880’s. But by the 1930s, according to a study written by the Federal Writers Project on their work in New Jersey, the Poles and Slavs became the largest ethnicity in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. As the population grew, the town’s Polish community needed a church of their own. In 1979, the population started to dwindle! St Stephens is one of the last vestiges of Polish culture. The chu
