Golden Gate Barrio

{{Short description|Former neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} '''Golden Gate Barrio''' was a historic Mexican-American neighborhood in the Eastside of Phoenix, Arizona. The neighborhood was razed due to eminent domain for the expansion of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in the 1970s and 1990s through the West Approach Land Acquisition Project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/stateofchange/aznow/aznow_sacred_heart.html|title=State of Change Arizona Now: Sacred Heart Church|access-date=July 8, 2013|archive-date=October 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004231345/http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/stateofchange/aznow/aznow_sacred_heart.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Dimas|first1=Pete|title=Progress and a Mexican American Community's Struggle for Existence: Phoenix's Golden Gate Barrio|date=1999|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|location=New York|isbn=0-8204-2353-X|page=93}}</ref>

In 1953 Father Albert Braun helped found Sacred Heart Church in neighborhood. Sacred Heart Church is the only remaining structure in the neighborhood located at 920 S. 17th Street in Phoenix.

[[File:Phoenix-Sacred Heart Church.jpg|thumbnail|right|Sacred Heart Church in Phoenix, Arizona]]

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 2012. Since 1986, its doors open once per year for Christmas Mass to the former neighborhood residents.

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==External links== * [https://barriozona.com/a-vanished-phoenix-barrio-visions-of-life-on-16th-street/ "A Vanished Phoenix Barrio: Visions of Life on 16th Street", ''Barriozona Magazine'', October 10, 2006]

Category:Geography of Phoenix, Arizona Category:Hispanic and Latino American culture in Phoenix, Arizona Category:Mexican-American culture in Arizona Category:Neighborhoods in Phoenix, Arizona