Park Slope Community Church
251 12th Street | Park Slope | built 1920
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- 1868
The North Reformed congregation lays the cornerstone of its new 12th Street church
After a yellow fever epidemic in 1856 decimated the older South Church, many of its members joined North Reformed, which needed a bigger home and bought land on 12th Street. G. E. Bergen laid the cornerstone in 1868 for a church designed by Gamaliel King, architect of Brooklyn's City Hall. Once it was finished, the congregation changed its name to the 12th Street Reformed Church.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1869
Gamaliel King's church for North Reformed is built in the German-inspired Rundbogenstil
King gave the church a Rundbogenstil form of Romanesque Revival, an early German-influenced style that became popular in Brooklyn once German and German-trained architects came to the Eastern District. Brownstoner points to the blind arches under the roofline and the narrow pointed towers as marks of the type.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1968
The 12th Street Reformed Church disbands, and the building passes to the Park Slope Community Church
The Reformed congregation, long active in Brooklyn church life, lasted until 1968, when it disbanded. The Park Slope Community Church, a Baptist congregation, then bought the building.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 2002
Leonid Kim starts a Russian-language Baptist congregation that shares the Park Slope Community Church's space
Kim was born in Uzbekistan, and his grandparents were Koreans forced to move to Central Asia in 1937. He started All Nations Baptist Church in 2002 with four members: himself, his wife, his son and one other woman. It had more than 100 members by 2008. The congregation is often associated with the Koryo-saram, ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet Union, and has been described as the only such church in the city.
“He started the congregation in 2002. Initially, the congregation had four members: Kim, his wife, his son, and one other woman. By 2008, it had over 100 members.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2022
All Nations Baptist raises donations and sends Leonid Kim to Ukraine
In 2022 the congregation's membership was reported as 30 percent Koryo-saram, 40 percent Ukrainian and 20 percent Russian. That year it collected donations and funded Kim's trip to Ukraine to deliver goods and funds and offer help. Kim said the war had first caused strife in the community that later healed.
“In 2022, the congregation collected donations and funded Kim to visit Ukraine to offer donated goods and funds, as well as his assistance.”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- All Nations Baptist ChurchWikipedia
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