__NOTOC__ St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Brooklyn at 423 Clinton Street at Carroll Street in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of

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was built from 1867 to 1884 and was designed by Richard Upjohn & Son in the High Victorian Gothic style. It was added to the

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in 1989. The parish is part of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the

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, part of the worldwide

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, in the

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tradition.

Parish history

St. Paul's was founded on Christmas Day of 1849, in South Brooklyn, then the quickly developing southward expansion of old Brooklyn Heights. New homes and businesses were covering old countryside, farmland, and shoreline;

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was bringing a new way of life to the

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, waves of immigrants from the nations of the world were arriving and the

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was looming. This was also the era when the

of Churches was experiencing a renewed vision of their catholic faith and order often called the "Anglo-Catholic Revival" of the

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. Saint Paul's was formed in heady days of philosophical, social, economic, and religious change. ''See also:''

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