The Building

St. Cyril and St. Methodius Church

The church was designed in 1923 by Lewiston architects Gibbs & Pulsifer, and is an imposing example of neo-Gothic architecture. It is the only known church in Maine with association to the Slovak immigrant community. It was dedicated in 1926 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

It is a large rectangular brick building with a gabled roof. The front facade is flanked by squat square towers with buttress-style projecting pilasters at the corners. The center of the facade has a large Gothic arch, in which there are two entrances, each also set in arches, with a circle-in-cross design above. Atop the large arch is a wagon-wheel rose window, and the gable above is crested by a cross.

The Slovak community in Lisbon Falls was established in the 1890s, when a group migrated from New Jersey in search of employment at the Worumbo Mill. Finding themselves isolated from the area's more established cultural groups, they formed a close-knit social circle and founded their own Catholic organization. Through collective effort, they raised funds to build a church, which was completed in 1923 and formally accepted into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland in 1936.

It has been home to the Maine Art Glass Studio since 2000.