Editing Spring Branch, Houston (section)

==Culture==
{{See also|Culture of Houston}}
[[File:St. Andrew Kim Church - Houston, Texas.jpg|thumb|St. Andrew Kim Catholic Church ({{langx|ko|휴스턴한인천주교회}})]]
The [http://www.sbfdc.org Spring Branch Family Development Center], a [[501(c)(3)]] organization, opened in 2001 to provide educational, recreational, health and social services to residents of Spring Branch.<ref>"[https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/memorial-news/article/Spring-Branch-Family-Development-Center-to-get-1771658.php Spring Branch Family Development Center to get new playground]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. November 11, 2008. Retrieved on November 28, 2011.</ref>

The [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston]] operates area Catholic churches. St. Andrew Kim Catholic Church ({{langx|ko|휴스턴한인천주교회}}), named after [[Andrew Kim Taegon]], is in Spring Branch. It serves ethnic Koreans and Korean speakers in the archdiocese.<ref name=Varatogether>Vara, Richard. "Area Asian Catholics to come together in celebration." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. August 21, 1999. Religion p. 1. [[NewsBank]] Record: 3159522. Available from the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' [http://houstonpubliclibrary.org/newspapers website's newspaper databases], accessible with a library card and PIN.</ref> The area has a [[Polish American]] house of worship, Our Lady of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Parish, established in the 1980s. At the time Polish immigrants who resisted Communist rule in that country arrived in Houston.<ref>{{cite web|author=Orozco, Yvette|url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Polish-American-community-celebrates-traditions-13819790.php|title=Polish-American community celebrates traditions at festival|work=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=2019-05-04|access-date=2019-10-18}}</ref> Other Spring Branch Catholic churches include Our Lady of Walsingham Church,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archgh.org/parishes/parish/?id=2581&name=Our-Lady-of-Walsingham-Church|title=Our Lady of Walsingham Church|publisher=[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston]]|access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> St. Catherine of Siena Church,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archgh.org/parishes/parish/?id=2597&name=St.-Catherine-of-Siena-Church|title=St. Catherine of Siena Church|publisher=[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston]]|access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> and St. Jerome Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archgh.org/parishes/parish/?id=2610&name=St.-Jerome-Church|title=St. Jerome Church|publisher=[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston]]|access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref>

The [[Islamic Society of Greater Houston]] (ISGH) operates an area house of worship for Muslims, the Spring Branch Islamic Center.<ref name=Mosquelist/> It houses the Islamic primary school [[ILM Academy]].<ref name=ILMAcadlink/>