Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal, Manhattan)
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The Church of the Epiphany is an Episcopal church designed in the Norman
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style, located at 1393
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, on the corner of
East 74th Street 74th Street is an east–west street carrying pedestrian traffic and eastbound automotive/bicycle traffic in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs through the Upper East Side neighborhood (in ZIP code 10021, where it is known as East ...
, on the
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of
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
,
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. The church was founded in 1833. The building at its current location was dedicated in 1939, and consecrated in 1944.


History

The congregation held its first service on January 6, 1833, in a hall on the corner of
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and
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. It was the first church of the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society. In 1834 it moved to a new building at 130
Stanton Street Stanton Street is a west-to-east street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in the neighborhood of the Lower East Side. The street begins at the Bowery in the west and runs east to a dead end past Pitt Street, adjacent to Hamilton Fish P ...
, between
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and Norfolk Street. It incorporated in 1845 and became an independent
parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...
. In 1874 it moved to 228 East 50th Street, between
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and
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Avenues. In 1881, it moved to East 47th Street, west of
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. The church at its current location on the north-west corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue had its first service on October 15, 1939, and was dedicated by
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William T. Manning on October 29, 1939. Its rector at the time was the Rev. John Wallace Suter, Jr., who was also the
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. The church was
consecrate Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ...
d on October 29, 1944. The former rector, the Rev.
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, was elected the sixth
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of the
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in 2018 and consecrated in 2019.


Architecture

The church was completed in 1939, and was designed in a simplified Norman
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style by the architectural firm
Wyeth and King Marion Sims Wyeth (February 17, 1889 – February 4, 1982) was an American architect known for his range in styles such as Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and classical Georgian, French, and Colonial. He designed numerous mansions in Palm Beac ...
, with Eugene W. Mason as the associated architect.


Organ

The church's organ was built by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. in 1962. Pipes of the Récit expressif and Positif divisions are located in a chamber on the side of the chancel, and the Hauptwerk and Pedal pipes are visible on
cantilever A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is supported at only one end. Typically it extends from a flat vertical surface such as a wall, to which it must be firmly attached. Like other structural elements, a cant ...
ed chests.


References


External links


Official website
*Charles Howland Russell
''The Church of the Epiphany, 1833–1958''
Church of the Epiphany (1956) *Church of the Epiphany, New York
''Milestones Between the Consecration of the Building at 130 Stanton Street, June, 1834: And the Consecration of the Building at 74th Street and York Avenue on the Twenty-first Sunday After Trinity, October 29, 1944''
(1944) {{DEFAULTSORT:Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal, Manhattan) Churches completed in 1939 20th-century Episcopal church buildings Religious organizations established in 1833 Episcopal church buildings in New York City Churches in Manhattan Upper East Side 1833 establishments in New York (state)