Emmanuel Baptist Church (Brooklyn)

Emmanuel Baptist Church
40°41′19″N 73°57′54″W / 40.68861°N 73.96500°W / 40.68861; -73.96500Coordinates: 40°41′19″N 73°57′54″W / 40.68861°N 73.96500°W / 40.68861; -73.96500
Location Brooklyn, New York
Country USA
Denomination Baptist
Website ebcconnects.com
History
Founded 1882
Clergy
Senior pastor(s) Anthony L. Trufant

Emmanuel Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on the northwest corner of Lafayette Avenue and St. James Place. The attendance is 2,200 peoples. The senior pastor is Anthony L. Trufant.

History

The congregation was established around 1882 with 194 members that had broken from the Washington Avenue Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York). The Emmanuel congregation commissioned architect E. L. Roberts, the architect of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, to build them a small, Gothic-style, two-story interim chapel on St. James Place (1882–1883)." Fund raising for the permanent church began in 1884.

It was built 1887 to designs by architect Francis H. Kimball in the Gothic Revival style "as a synthesis of the cathedral type and the Baptist preaching church." It is considered one of Kimball's finest designs.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[2] The church building was opened on April 17, 1887. Architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler praised it as "a very rich scholarly and well considered design." The most conspicuous design feature of the interior was the central font.[1][3]

In 2017, the attendance is 2,200 peoples.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999), p.896
  2. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ Kathleen LaFrank (May 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Registration:Emmanuel Baptist Church". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-02-20. See also: "Accompanying three photos".
  4. ↑ Hartford Institute Database of megachurches in the US, hartfordinstitute.org's website, USA, Retrieved October 08, 2017
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