Unholy Confessions

Some places are built for worship. Others are built to hide what should never be found.

On a quiet corner near Brooklyn's Prospect Park stands The Holy Dominion of Saint Mary, an imposing Catholic church offering sanctuary, salvation, and a confessional that never closes. To the faithful who pass through its doors, it is a place of reverence. To those who know the history of the land beneath it, the church represents something far more unsettling.

Decades earlier, the same ground belonged to ...