Church of the Little Flower, 2711 Indian Mound Trail, City of Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA / Built: 1951 / Architects: Barry and Kay, William Haley / Capacity 900 / Architectural Style: Spanish Renaissance

The Church of the Little Flower is a Roman Catholic church in Coral Gables, Florida founded in 1926. The church's domed 1951 building was constructed in Spanish Renaissance style, in keeping with the Mediterranean Revival architecture for which Coral Gables is noted.

The present church was built in 1951. The stained-glass windows were designed by William Haley. It was dedicated by Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley of St. Augustine. The 1951 sanctuary seats 900. Rev. Manuel (Many) Alvarez is the current pastor.

Jeanette and Marco Rubio were married at Little Flower in 1998. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, both candidates for the Presidency, attended Little Flower during the 2016 United States presidential election. Previously, Andy Gomez, a retired Professor of Cuban Studies at the University of Miami and a member of the parish council, called Little Flower "the only Catholic church that has two presidential candidates." Little Flower has also been the site of several funerals for prominent figures connected to the parish, such as Juan Gonzalez, Marta Permuy, and Marlene Kerdyk.

The composition of the congregation changed with the arrival of an enormous wave of Cubans who immigrated to Miami after Fidel Castro's 1959 rise to power in the Cuban Revolution. More than half of the parish and more than half of the children in the school were Cuban-American in 2000. The church became known as a center of political conservatism, with many members active in the Republican Party. The membership is "predominantly" Cuban and Cuban-American. Historian Darryl V. Caterine credits their arrival with sparking a "dramatic religious revitalization" of Catholicism in South Florida.

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