Middle Collegiate Church

The Middle Collegiate Church is a Reformed Church in America church located on Second Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.[1] The church was built in 1891 on a site directly north of the Isaac T. Hopper House, and was designed by the architect S. B. Reed, "'thoroughly equipped' as one guide said, 'with reading-rooms, gymnasium, and all appliances for aggressive modern church work'."[2] The stained-glass windows are of Tiffany glass.[3] The church is the successor of the Second Middle Collegiate Church, also known as the Lafayette Place Middle Dutch Church, built 1839 and abandoned by the congregation in 1887.

Middle Collegiate Reformed Church
Middle Collegiate Reformed Church
LocationSecond Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets, New York, New York
CountryUnited States
DenominationReformed
Architecture
Architect(s)S. B. Reed
Architectural typeGothic Revival

The congregation was founded in 1628, and is one of the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in North America. Other existing churches tracing their congregational founding to the same first Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of 1628 include West End Collegiate Church (built 1892), located on the corner of West End Avenue and 77th Street; Marble Collegiate Church, at Fifth Avenue and 29th Street; and the Fort Washington Collegiate Church, at Magaw Place and 181st Street. All are part of the Reformed Church in America.

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Notes

  1. Congregation History
  2. Nathan Silver, Lost New York, (New York: Weathervane Books, 1967), p.147
  3. White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.
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