The Basilica Preservation Fund

The Basilica Preservation Fund, Inc. was formed as a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation in March 2008, ensuring the future integrity of the art and architecture of the Basilica of St. Lawrence.

We are commissioned with the task of raising the funds needed to preserve this beautiful, historic basilica, considered to be Rafael Guastavino’s masterpiece.

We appeal to like minded individuals, corporations, and funding institutions who will join with us in this worthwhile endeavor to Save The Basilica.

“As architecture, it’s remarkable because of the surfaces and how it fills the spaces it fills—and he makes it look simple. It’s a defiant technology in the face of concrete and steel, in form and execution—a very elegant solution that’s hard not to like the more you learn about it.”

– Derek Trelsted, engineer, Robert Silman Associates Traditional Building Magazine Dec 2021