PHOENIX (AZFamily) — In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re revisiting a place in Phoenix you may have driven by, but might not know much about: the historic Sacred Heart Church.
It was built in the 1950’s near 16th Street and Buckeye Road. “It could be just a building, if a contractor built it,” said Abe Arvizu. “But it wasn’t built by a contractor.”
Arvizu is the chairman of the Braun Sacred Heart Center. It’s a non-profit established in the 1980’s to protect the building. The first mass was held there in 1954, and people in the then-Golden Gate barrio helped build it…