St. Mary's Church, Red Deer

52.258684°N 113.782075°W / 52.258684; -113.782075

St. Mary's Church
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Location	Red Deer, Alberta
Address	6 McMillan Avenue
Denomination	Catholic
Website	stmarysparishredeer.ca
History
Dedication	8 December 1968 (1968-12-08)
Architecture
Architect(s)	Douglas Cardinal
Groundbreaking	22 June 1966 (1966-06-22)
Administration
Archdiocese	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton

St. Mary's Church, formally the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Catholic parish church in Red Deer, Alberta. The church is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton and opened in 1968. It is most notable as the first building designed by Douglas Cardinal.

History

St. Mary's was the second Catholic parish in Red Deer and was formed as an outgrowth of the Sacred Heart parish.^[1] The new parish was formed in October 1963 as St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, and received its current name in September 1964. The parish hired architect Douglas Cardinal to design its church. Cardinal, who had grown up near Red Deer, had at the time just opened an independent practice. Cardinal designed an expressionist structure made of brick that was intended to respond to the modernisations of the Second Vatican Council.^[2] Construction began in 1966 and the church opened officially in 1968.