St. Paul's Chapel (Manhattan)

West facade of the Paulus Chapel

Broadway location

Choir, altar and galleries, photo v. 2008

The St. Paul's Chapel ( German : Paulus-Kapelle) is the oldest church in Manhattan ( New York City ). It is located in the south of the peninsula ( Lower Manhattan ) on Broadway and is used by the Episcopal Church .

With the house no. On Broadway 209, St. Paul's Chapel is between Fulton and Vesey Streets, directly east of the World Trade Center block. It is the oldest existing and used church building in Manhattan and is surrounded by a cemetery with old tombstones and a high lattice. The church was built between 1764 and 1766 according to plans by the architect Thomas McBean under the direction of Andrew Gautier. The land she stands on is a gift to the community from Queen Anne of Great Britain .

In the great fire of September 1776 after the capture of New York by British troops, it was unscathed. George Washington , for example, prayed in it . It is a branch church of the larger and now mighty Trinity Church seven blocks away on Wall Street .

In October 1960, the church was granted National Historic Landmark status . In October 1966, it was entered on the National Register of Historic Places .

Building

The church adjoins Broadway with a four-pillar portico. The gray stone is edged with smoothed red stone. The tower sits above the west-facing choir. A similarity with St. Martin-in-the-Fields is also pointed out in its proportions . Two wooden longitudinal galleries in the hall.

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  St. Paul's Chapel
  from the east,
  March 2, 1937

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  graveyard

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  Aerial photo of ground zero in November 2001,
  the location of Saint-Pauls-Chapel is outlined in red

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1964 by the Schlicker Organ Company (Buffalo, New York) to replace an instrument from 1950 that was built by the Aeolian-Skinner organ builder. The instrument has 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electro-pneumatic. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the instrument was initially decommissioned and was cleaned and put back into operation in 2009.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Quintadena 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Cane-covered 8th' 4th Octave 4 ′ 5. Pointed flute 4 ′ 6th Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Octave 2 ′ 8th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 9. Mixture IV-V 10. Trumpet 8th'

II Positive C-g 3 11. Wood-covered 8th' 12. Principal 4 ′ 13. Reed flute 4 ′ 14th Gemshorn 2 ′ 15th Klein-Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 16. Sif flute 1' 17th Sharp III 18th Krummhorn 8th' tremolo

Pedal C – f 1 19th Sub bass 16 ′ 20th Principal 8th' 21st Flat flute 8th' 22nd Choral bass 4 ′ 23. Night horn 2 ′ 24. Mixture III 25th bassoon 16 ′ 26th shawm 4 ′

Aid center after September 11, 2001

Sympathy posters for the victims of the attacks on the east side of the church, November 18, 2001

Since the church was not in the collapse area of ​​the twin towers , it stopped that day. No pane was destroyed. However, it was initially completely covered by a centimeter-thick layer of dust. The chapel was opened as an aid station and food outlet for the firefighters , police officers and sniffer dogs, soldiers and steel workers who came to rescue, dig and recover in the days and weeks that followed. There were emergency beds for sleep seekers and massage benches for those whose backs ached. And there was music every day - jazz, Mozart, Bach.

See also

• History of New York
• List of National Historic Landmarks in New York

literature

• Morgan Dix: A History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York. GP Putnam's Sons, New York 1898. (English)
• George Everard Kidder. In: Smith Source book of American architecture: 500 notable buildings from the 10th Century to the Present. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. (English)
• J. Chester Johnson: St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Short Poems. St. Johann press, New York 2010. (English)
• Andrew S. Dolkart, Matthew A. Postal: Guide to New York City Landmarks. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. 3. Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2004. (English)
• David Dunlap: From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. Columbia University Press, New York 2004. (English)
• Hartmut M. Hanauske-Abel: The martyrdom of Lyndon Harris. He was a pastor in the legendary St. Paul's Chapel. He turned her into an oasis of help in the middle of Hell. The church superiors do not forgive him to this day. In: The time. No. 34 of August 18, 2011, p. 16.
• Lyndon Harris: Sanctuary at Ground Zero - After the towers fell, a tiny 18th-century Episcopal church became a relief center. In: National Geographic. Sept 2002
• Seth Kugel: 36 Hours in Downtown Manhattan. In: New York Times. August 21, 2011. - "No pass is needed to visit the" Unwavering Spirit: Hope and Healing at Ground Zero "exhibition at St. Paul's Chapel nearby."
• Restored Monument Returns to St. Paul's in NYC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lawrence doubts that Thomas McBean is the architect. James Crommelin Lawrence: NYC architecture , Tom Fletcher: New York Architecture Images - St. Paul's Chapel (Episc.) New York Architecture
2. ^ Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek: Congress and Its Members. CQ Press, 2006, p. 13
3. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New York. National Park Service , accessed January 31, 2020.
   St. Paul's Chapel (PDF; 278 kB), National Register of Historic Places, nomination October 11, 1975.
4. ↑ St. Paul's Chapel in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed January 31, 2020.
5. ↑ information on organ (English)

Web links

Commons : St. Paul's Chapel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• St. Paul's Chapel - Website
• St. Paul website
• St. Paul's Chapel near New York architecture (English)
• The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine - Mother Church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York
• Flickr photo gallery Saint Paul's Tombstone & Churchyard
• Charles Frederick Wingate: Leaflets with texts from individual tombs , 1905.

Coordinates: 40 ° 42  '40.4 " N , 74 ° 0' 32.4"  W.