La Iglesia Pentecostal La Luz del Mundo / Light of the World Church Pentecostal Church is an

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, located at 179 South 9th Street, occupying the historic 19th-century former New England Congregational Church since 1955. The former New England Congregational Church was a

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built between 1852 and 1853 in the Italianate-style to designs by Thomas Little. It is a brick building faced in

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with wood and metal trim. Henry Ward Beecher gave the keynote address at the cornerstone laying and his younger brother

Thomas K. Beecher Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (February 10, 1824 - March 14, 1900) was a Congregationalist preacher and the principal of several schools. As a Congregational minister, his father took the family from Beecher's birthplace of Litchfield, Connecticut, to ...

was the guiding spirit for the young congregation. The adjacent

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was built in 1868. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying five photographs''
/ref> At some point, the Congregational congregation sold the church and it was operating as a

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church in the mid 20th century. The Lutherans sold the church in 1955 to Iglesia Pentecostal La Luz del Mundo / Light of the World Church Pentecostal Church (Assemblies of God Pentecostal). It was landmark protected in 1981. It was restored between 1988 and 1993, and as of 2008 was still in use.David Galarza
“Preservation Profile: Iglesia Pentecostal, La Luz Del Mund (Light of the World Pentecostal Church)”
, New York Landmarks Conservancy website. Accessed 25 March 2008. It was listed on the

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in 1983.

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