The Middle Collegiate Church is a Reformed Church in America church located at 112 Second Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The church was built in 1891 on a site directly north of the Isaac T. Hopper House. The congregation was founded in 1628, and built its first church in 1731.
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The Middle Collegiate Church is a Reformed Church in America church located at 112 Second Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. On December 5, 2020, the church was gutted by a fire that left only its stone exterior intact. The church was built in 1891 on a site directly north of the Isaac T. Hopper House, and was designed by the architect S. B. Reed. It featured stained-glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The congregation was founded in 1628, and built its first church in 1731 on Nassau Street. It is one of the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in North America. Other existing churches tracing their congregational founding to the same first Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of 1628 include West End Collegiates Church, located on the corner of West End Avenue and 77th Street.
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