English: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1182 Ridge Road at South Shore Boulevard, Lackawanna, New York, November 2021. Completed in 1974 after three years of construction, this striking Byzantine-influenced Modernist church building sports a vaguely shield- or lozenge-shaped footprint with an entrance facing the street corner; low, sprawling dimensions in the front portion of the building contrasting with a pair of vaults across the roof that become progressively loftier and more prominent as you move toward the rear (the tallest of which is fronted by a trip of projecting column-like towers that symbolize the three crucifixes at Golgotha), and on the side elevations vertical window-columns set into slanted recesses in the accordion-shaped exterior walls, with fin louvers in between. Founded in 1926 and originally called Holy Ghost Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the parish's first church was located on Wilkesbarre Street in Lackawanna's First Ward and served a Ukrainian-American community which at the time mostly consisted of employees of the nearby steel plant and the families thereof. The growth of the flock was such that, by the 1960s, Holy Ghost's head pastor Rev. Bohdan Ostapowycz saw fit to purchase a parcel of vacant land in the more suburban eastern outskirts of Lackawanna where a larger church could eventually be built. His successor, Rev. Ihor Pelensky, brought these plans to fruition, establishing a building fund in the late 1960s. The cornerstone-laying ceremony in 1971 coincided with the unveiling of the parish's new and current name. Our Lady of Perpetual Help is today one of four Buffalo-area member parishes of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford.