The New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was an organization whose mission was "... to promote Churches, Missions, and Sunday-schools in the City of New York."
[ It built or purchased churches, ]missions
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, and Sunday school
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s, mostly in Manhattan and the Bronx,[ Dolkart (1997), Section 8, p. 2.] and primarily in poor areas, or areas that were being developed.[ Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue NRHP Registration Form, June 20, 1999, Section 8, p. 3.] Founded in 1866, it ran 24 congregations by 1895.[
The Church Extension and Mission Society owned a number of landmark buildings in Manhattan that later became ]synagogue
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s. These included, from 1878 to 1885, the building subsequently purchased by ,[ and from 1889 to 1902, the building subsequently purchased by the First Roumanian-American congregation.][ Dolkart (1997), Section 8, p. 7.]
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References
* Dolkart, Andrew S.br>National Register of Historic Places Nomination Registration Form, First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue
NPS Forms 10-900/10-900a, United States Department of the Interior/ National Park Service, October 2, 1997.
* National Register of Historic Places Nomination, Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue
NPS Forms 10-900/10-900a, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, June 30, 1999.
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History of Methodism in the United States