I’ve previously posted many pictures of the interior of St. Mary’s church building in Yonkers, NY (also known as the Church of the Immaculate Conception). The school affiliated with the parish, which I attended, closed a few years ago. The parish has rented the school building and much of the parish hall to the City of Yonkers. The school building has been converted to a public school, and the parish hall, which was long, long ago the original church building for the parish, is undergoing renovations, I presume to be used as a hall for the school

During the renovations, painters uncovered five fresco paintings on the back wall of the stage, once the altar.  No one knew that they were there. They were fresco paintings that could not be removed so they were painted when the new church was built and this building was converted to a hall/gym/theater.  Theatrical shows needed different backdrop watercolor paintings so the frescos were painted over.

The three paintings shown here once surrounded a marble altar that was installed around 1870;  the other two were painted above the side altars and are largely obscured even now.  These are of the Left to Right: the Magi visiting Jesus in the manger, Mary Queen of Heaven, and Jesus playing with the children: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”  Mark 10:14.