| Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church | |
|---|---|
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 Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church | |
| Location | New York City,New York |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Presbyterian Church (USA) |
| Membership | 572 (2021)[1] |
| Website | mapc |
| History | |
| Status | Church |
| Founded | 1839 |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect | James E. Ware & Sons[2] |
| Style | Neo-Gothic |
| Completed | 1899 |
| Administration | |
| Synod | Synod of the Northeast |
| Presbytery | Presbytery of New York |
| Parish | Madison Avenue |
| Clergy | |
| Senior pastor | The Rev. Dr. Aaron Janklow |
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (MAPC) is a congregation of thePresbyterian Church (USA). It is located at East 73rd Street andMadison Avenue on theUpper East Side ofManhattan inNew York City.
The congregation was organized in 1839 asEleventh Presbyterian Church on 4th and Avenue D. The church moved to East 53rd and Madison Avenue in 1872 and changed its name toMemorial Presbyterian Church in commemoration of theOld and New School branches of the denomination.[2][3] The congregation was renamedMadison Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1886.
Phillips Presbyterian Church was organized in 1844 and moved uptown in 1869. In 1872,James Lenox donated a church building, designed in High Victorian Gothic style byR.H. Robertson, on the East 73rd Street site. In 1899, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church merged with Phillips and the church building was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style byJames E. Ware.[2] The current location has an 800-seat sanctuary.[4]
In 1927,George Arthur Buttrick succeededHenry Sloane Coffin as minister.[5] In January 1936, he officiated the wedding of future PresidentDonald Trump's parents,Fred Trump andMary Anne MacLeod Trump, in this church.[6] WriterFrederick Buechner attended MAPC and was eventually ordained there in 1958.[7]
David H. C. Read was pastor of MAPC from 1956 until 1989. During Read's tenure, his sermons were mailed out each Monday as part of a subscription service, and some of his regular radio sermons were broadcast nationally by theNational Council of Churches. Read was succeeded byFred R. Anderson.[8]
They married the following January at Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church with a British-born minister named George Arthur Buttrick officiating.
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