Emmanuel Baptist Church is a

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in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of

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, on the northwest corner of Lafayette Avenue and St. James Place, affiliated with the

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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

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in 1977. The church building was opened on April 17, 1887. Architectural critic

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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. ''See also:'' In 2017, the attendance was 2,200 people.Hartford Institut
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