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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew is the oldest Lutheran congregation in North America. The congregation is a member of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). Since 2006, the congregation has been located at the Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The congregation has been known by different ...
English: Trinity Church - Lutheran (1729-1776), Broadway, New York City. Date: circa 1776 ... Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew (New York City) Metadata.
Pages in category "Lutheran churches in New York City" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An English-language Lutheran church was founded and built in 1822 on Walker Street, at the east end of Broadway, called Saint Matthew's Church. Always in debt, it was sold in 1826 for $22,750 after The United German Lutheran Churches in New York City refused to aid St. Matthew's.
In 1999, St. Matthew's Lutheran Church launched a $1.2 million capital fund appeal to purchase and restore a historic circa 1810 building adjacent to the sanctuary to function as a Community Outreach Center. The architect, Glenn Keys, used a photo from 1883 to guide his design.
St. Matthew Episcopal Church. In 1943, St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church was merged by order of the New York Supreme Court with St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, [54] [55] originally of Throop Avenue and then, after the merger with the Church of the Epiphany, of Tompkins Ave. at McDonough Street. [56]
The Renaissance Revival style former church was built in 1847 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew which first rented it to St. Mark's and subsequently sold it to them in 1857. [2] [dead link ] [3] By the end of the nineteenth century the congregation was in decline as congregants were moving elsewhere.
Another group, which included St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in New York City, was even more conservative than the Steimle Synod and became antagonistic toward the Ministerium. These congregations and pastors withdrew from the Ministerium, with most eventually joining the Missouri Synod; [8] St. Matthew's did so in 1885. [11]