''The New Jersey Churchscape: Encountering Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Churches'' is a book and website written by Frank L. Greenagel.
The book was published by
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
History
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in 2001 and covers
synagogues
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...
and meeting houses as well as churches.
It took five years of research and covers 225 buildings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, presenting photographs along with commentary.
As the ''New York Times'' observes, what's striking is the diversity of religious structures in New Jersey, a state that "was always more religiously diverse than New England." And yet, the ''Times'' continues, the book still provides us with the sense of a "typical New Jersey church."
In total, there are approximately 1,400 churches, synagogues and meeting houses in New Jersey that were built before 1900. Greenagel continues to photograph and research them, and is in the process of publishing a complete, county by county inventory of all the surviving 18th- and 19th-century churches in the state. Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren Counties have been completed as of 2007.
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Architecture books
2001 non-fiction books
Rutgers University Press books
Books about religion