Trust in God Baptist Church

5 Elizabeth Street | Chinatown | built 1890

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1887
Herter Brothers design a Queen Anne tenement at 5 Elizabeth Street
The National Register nomination for the Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District lists 5 Elizabeth Street as a five-story brick tenement in the Queen Anne style, designed by Herter Brothers in 1887. It names Wolf Baum and Rachel Kurtzman as the developers and notes that the cornice is missing.
Source: National Register nomination
1888
A Bible study group begins meeting on Mott Street, the start of Trust in God Baptist Church
The congregation that now worships at 5 Elizabeth Street says it began in 1888, when a few believers met each Sunday in a rented third-floor apartment at 1 Mott Street. The group took the name Sun Lok School in 1899 and Trust in God School in 1904. It set up five missions between 1905 and 1925, in Philadelphia and in Guangdong towns, and was incorporated as a church in 1926.
Source: tigbc.org
1961
October
Trust in God Baptist Church buys 5 Elizabeth Street
In October 1961 the congregation ended its search for a new place of worship by buying 5 Elizabeth Street, where it still meets. In 1971, under Pastor Hing Cheung Au-Yeung, the church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Besides its English-language services, it holds a Sunday service in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Source: tigbc.org

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