Emmanuel Baptist Church is a
Baptist
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megachurch
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in the
Clinton Hill neighborhood of
Brooklyn, New York
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, on the northwest corner of Lafayette Avenue and St. James Place, affiliated with the
American Baptist Churches USA
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. The attendance is 2,200 peoples. The senior pastor is Anthony L. Trufant.
History
The congregation was established around 1882 with 194 members that had broken from the
Washington Avenue Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York). The Emmanuel congregation commissioned architect E. L. Roberts, the architect of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, to build them a small, Gothic-style, two-story interim chapel on St. James Place (1882–1883)." Fund raising for the permanent church began in 1884.
It was built 1887 to designs by architect
Francis H. Kimball in the
Gothic Revival style "as a synthesis of the cathedral type and the Baptist preaching church." It is considered one of Kimball's finest designs.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1977.
The church building was opened on April 17, 1887. Architectural critic
Montgomery Schuyler
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praised it as "a very rich scholarly and well considered design." The most conspicuous design feature of the interior was the central font.
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In 2017, the attendance was 2,200 people.[Hartford Institut]
Database of megachurches in the US
hartfordinstitute.org's website, USA, Retrieved October 08, 2017
See also
*List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn
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Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn
Churches completed in 1887
19th-century Baptist churches in the United States
New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn
Gothic Revival church buildings in New York City
Religious organizations established in 1882
Baptist churches in New York City
Churches in Brooklyn
Evangelical megachurches in the United States
Megachurches in New York (state)
American Baptist Churches USA