| German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark | |
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 German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark in 2024 | |
 German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark | |
| 40°43′37″N73°59′14″W / 40.72694°N 73.98722°W /40.72694; -73.98722 | |
| Address | 323East 6th Street,Lower Manhattan,New York City,New York 10001 |
| Country | United States |
| Previous denomination | Lutheranism |
| History | |
| Status | |
| Founder | Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Renaissance Revival |
| Completed | 1847 |
| Closed |
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German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark | |
| NRHP reference No. | 04000296[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 15, 2004 |
TheGerman Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark is an historic formerchurch and currentsynagogue building located at 323East 6th Street betweenFirst andSecond Avenues in theEast Village neighborhood ofManhattan, inNew York City,New York, United States.
TheRenaissance Revival style former church was built in 1847 by theEvangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew which first rented it to St. Mark's and subsequently sold it to them in 1857.[2][dead link][3] By the end of the nineteenth century the congregation was in decline as congregants were moving elsewhere. Much of the church membership was killed in the 1904General Slocum disaster, most of the victims being women and children, and the congregation never recovered.[4][5]
In 1904, The Ladies' Aid Society (Frauenhilfsverein) chartered theGeneral Slocum steamboat for their summer outing on the East River. The boat caught fire and over 1000 parishioners perished in one of the worst disasters in the city's history. Thereafter Germans began moving uptown from the Lower East Side, primarily toYorkville and abandoned the church. The parish of St. Mark's merged with the Zion Church in Yorkville in 1946 to becomeZion St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church.[6]
| Sixth Street Community Synagogue Max D. Raiskin Center | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Modern Orthodox Judaism |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Synagogue |
| Leadership | Rabbi Gavriel Bellino |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | 323 East 6th Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York 10001 |
 Interactive map of Sixth Street Community Synagogue Max D. Raiskin Center | |
| Architecture | |
| Established | 1940(as a congregation) |
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| Website | |
| www | |
In 1940, the church was converted to theSixth Street Community Synagogue, located in the Max D. Raiskin Center, aModern OrthodoxJewish congregation.[4][7]
Evicted from its former premises in 2013, located at 3 West Sixteenth Street, the congregation known as the Young Israel of Fifth Avenue,[8] subsequently merged into the Sixth Street congregation.
The building was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 2004,[1] and is located within theEast Village/Lower East Side Historic District, which was created in October 2012.[2]
Media related toCommunity Synagogue formerly St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Wikimedia Commons
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