The Knights of New Turkey

The Knights of Columbus are a Catholic fraternal organization established in 1882 in New Haven, Connecticut, where the headquarters still resides at One Columbus Plaza, a forbidding skyscraper of dark brown brick and smoked glass. Founded for the relief of workingmen’s widows and orphans by a young Irish-American priest, Michael McGivney, the Knights became the largest, most powerful Catholic men’s group in the country.