40°46′20″N73°58′46″W / 40.77209°N 73.979314°W /40.77209; -73.979314
| Holy Trinity Lutheran Church | |
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 (2010) | |
  Location in Manhattan | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival architecture |
| Location | Manhattan,New York City, US |
| Coordinates | 40°46′20″N73°58′46″W / 40.77222°N 73.97944°W /40.77222; -73.97944 |
| Construction started | 1902[1] |
| Completed | 1904[2] |
| Cost | $125,000.00[1] |
| Client | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity of 1042 Madison Ave[1] |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Stone masonry |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Schickel & Ditmars[1] |
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is aLutheran church located at 3West 65th Street at the corner ofCentral Park West on theUpper West Side ofManhattan,New York City. It is a member of theEvangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The church is a double-height-over-basement stone structure with a rectory,[1] and is located within theCentral Park West Historic District, designated 1990 by theNew York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.[3]
The congregation was founded in 1868 after splitting from St. James's Lutheran Church. Most New York Lutherans were German in the nineteenth century, and "Holy Trinity was one of a very few English-speaking Lutheran congregations. The first church was at 47 West 21st Street, in the edifice originally built for St. Paul's Reformed Dutch Church."[3]
It was built between 1902 and 1904.[1][2]The church building, designed by the noted architectural firm ofSchickel & Ditmars, who were generally responsible for the designs ofRoman Catholic commissions or other clients of German descent.
According to the church website, "Holy Trinity is most widely known for the Bach Vespers series, begun in 1968, the first instance in America where the cantatas of Bach could be heard regularly on their appointed day (designated by Bach himself) in the context of worship."[2] The church's Bach Choir records hymns and liturgical music for Augsburg Fortress Publishing House.[2]The church also hosts asoup kitchen for people suffering fromAIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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