St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (New York City)
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The St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran parish church. It is located on Christopher Street in the West Village in the New York borough of Greenwich Village , Manhattan . The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .
history
The church building was erected in 1821/22 as the Eighth Presbyterian Church on the site of Hartwick Seminary , the first Lutheran seminary in the United States . In 1842 the building was taken over by the Episcopal Church , which consecrated it to St. Matthew. In 1858 the church was again taken over by a Lutheran congregation that was still German at the time.
literature
- David W. Dunlap: From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. Columbia University Press, New York 2004.
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ lutherans.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Dunlap, p. 214
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 74 ° 0 ′ 12.7 ″ W.