title: Our Lady Help of Christians Chapel (Cheektowaga, New York)
text: # Our Lady Help of Christians Chapel (Cheektowaga, New York)
  
  Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians, also known as the Maria Hilf Chapel, is a historic Roman Catholic church located at Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York. It is part of the Diocese of Buffalo.
  
  ## Description
  
  The Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians was constructed in 1853, in the Greek Revival style, as a religious center for the rural Alsatian community and pilgrimage site for urban Alsatian, German, Polish, and Italian immigrants to Our Lady Help of Christians. The interior features a barrel vault ceiling, wooden church mobiliary, frescos, paintings, and other features that reflect an Alsatian village church.
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
  
  