Congregation feels ‘God’s presence’ in a humble setting

Again, an undercroft becomes the sanctuary as church professes faith amid hardship
By Jay Tokasz
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
December 25, 2008

The people of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church have been in this situation before.

They had only enough money in 1921 to build a foundation for a new stone church on Main Street, so they put up a temporary roof and began worshipping in the basement.

They scrimped and saved and stayed downstairs for seven years, before finally moving into a beautiful English Gothic sanctuary designed by a noted Buffalo architect.

But necessity again has forced worship into the humble confines of what parishioners affectionately call the undercroft. the rest