First Hungarian Reformed Church
346 East 69th Street | Lenox Hill | built 1916
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- 1895
Hungarian immigrants organize the First Hungarian Congregation
As New York's Hungarian population grew after the failed 1848 revolt against Habsburg rule, the Reverend Bertalan Demeter organized the city's Hungarian Protestants into the First Hungarian Congregation in 1895, initially holding services at Hope Chapel on East 4th Street.
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- 1914
The growing congregation buys East 69th Street lots for a permanent church
With more than 75,000 New Yorkers of Hungarian origin counted in the 1910 census, the congregation purchased three lots on East 69th Street in 1914 and demolished the existing houses to make way for a permanent home, consecrated in early 1916 using the bell from its previous building.
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- 1916
Emery Roth designs a Hungarian-style church for his countrymen
The First Hungarian congregation was founded in 1895 and first met at Hope Chapel on 4th Street. It hired Emery Roth, an immigrant from Gálszécs in Hungary, to design this stucco-faced church in a Hungarian vernacular style. The building was consecrated in early 1916, using the bell from the congregation's old church. The church has been a city landmark since 2019.
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- 2019
The city designates the church a landmark
The Landmarks Preservation Commission granted the church New York City landmark status on June 11, 2019. The building and its parsonage next door had already been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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