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The former Society of Friends meetinghouse was built 1868, described in the AIA Guide to New York City as "A simple Lombardian Romanesque box polychromed with vigor by its current tenants." As of 1977, it was the Apostolic Faith Mission. [1]
Marble Collegiate Church, on Fifth Avenue at 29th Street. The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is a Dutch Reformed congregation in Manhattan, New York City, which has had a variety of church buildings and now exists in the form of four component bodies: the Marble, Middle, West End and Fort Washington Collegiate Church, all part of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of New York.
Calvary Church is an Episcopal church located at 277 Park Avenue South on the corner of East 21st Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on the border of the Flatiron District. It was designed by James Renwick Jr., the architect who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grace Church, and was completed in 1848.
Trinity Chapel, New York University (1964), 58 Washington Square South, West Village, Manhattan, New York—Built 1961–1964 to designs of Eggers and Higgins, it was the former New York University Catholic Center which was moved to the parish church of St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Avenue at Waverly Place.
The Marble Collegiate Church, founded in 1628, is one of the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in North America.The congregation, which is part of two denominations in the Reformed tradition—the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America—is located at 272 Fifth Avenue at the corner of West 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
In 1957 the council sponsored Billy Graham's crusade in a New York City mission in Madison Square Garden, which ran nightly for 16 weeks. [4] Since 1963 the council has organized the Family of Man annual banquet. [2] [5] In 1989, the council began to focus on public policy issues and advocacy for the poor. [2]
The congregation began in 1838 as New York City's fourth society devoted to the Universalist faith (the previous three were founded in 1796, 1830 and 1832, respectively). The congregation's original name was Friends of the Final Restitution and in 1848, it changed its name to the Church of the Divine Paternity.
The Metro staff and trained volunteers visit the families of the children every week at their homes. Metro has also organized child sponsorship. For the children who live too far to go to the Sunday School services, they have wandering trucks that stop in areas of the city and where from they produce Sidewalk Sunday School.