Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

3 West 65th Street | Lincoln Square | built 1957

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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1868

    January 27

    Members split from St. James Lutheran Church to found Holy Trinity

    On January 27, 1868, a group of members split from St. James Lutheran Church, an English-speaking congregation, to form Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. The new congregation bought the former St. Paul's Reformed Dutch Church at 47 West 21st Street for $60,000 and stayed there for more than three decades before moving uptown.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1904

    Schickel & Ditmars build a steel-framed church disguised as stone Gothic

    William Schickel and Isaac Ditmars designed the church at 3 West 65th Street, begun in June 1902 and finished two years later at a cost of about $350,000 including the land. It looks like stone Gothic modeled on 13th-century French churches, but as the New York Times reported, its two towers and steeple are almost entirely steel. The Times compared it to Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1904

    May 15

    Holy Trinity's new church is consecrated with a Tiffany Studios window among its first

    The church was consecrated on May 15, 1904, at the start of a four-day celebration. Most windows were still waiting for stained glass, and one of the first installed that year was The Second Coming of Christ, made by Tiffany Studios. Windows were added one by one over the years, and the last of eight, The Last Supper, went in on June 1, 1941.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1968

    Holy Trinity begins its Bach Vespers series of cantatas in worship

    In 1968 Holy Trinity began its Bach Vespers series. The church says it was the first place in America where Bach's cantatas could be heard regularly on their appointed days within a worship service. Its Bach Choir records liturgical music for Augsburg Fortress.

    Source: Wikipedia

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