Winfield Reformed Church

42-12 67th Street | Woodside | built 1914

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

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1914
Winfield Reformed Church puts up its present building
Founded in 1880, the Winfield Reformed Church first stood on Queens Boulevard before relocating to this site in 1910, and its current building went up in 1914. The congregation belongs to the Reformed Church in America and was historically Dutch-speaking, with a mostly white membership until the 1960s.
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1969
Winfield becomes the first mainly Taiwanese congregation in North America
A wave of Taiwanese immigrants arrived in the neighborhood in the 1960s, and Rev. Andrew Kuo volunteered as the church's minister while working for the American Bible Society. By 1969 the congregation was mostly Taiwanese, the first such church in North America, and preaching continued in both English and Taiwanese.
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1973
Exiled independence activist Wu-Tong Hwang becomes senior pastor at Winfield
Rev. Dr. Wu-Tong Hwang, trained in the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, came to the United States in 1973 after the Kuomintang government drove him into political exile, and served as Winfield's senior pastor until 1978. The church was for decades a center of overseas Taiwanese independence activism, with pastors and members joining rallies for Taiwan's causes.
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