Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan is a

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church located at 164 West 100th Street just east of Amsterdam Avenue, on the

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. It was founded in 1888, p. 280 as the German Evangelical Lutheran Church to serve German immigrants moving into the Upper West Side. It initially held services in a storefront until money had been raised to buy land and build a sanctuary."History"
on the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church website The double-height brick and stone masonry church building was constructed in 1908, and was designed by George W. Conable in the

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.Office for Metropolitan History
"Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).Russiello, James R.
A Sympathetic Planning Hierarchy for Redundant Churches: A Comparison of Continued Use and Reuse in Denmark, England and the United States of America
' (MSc Conservation of Historic Buildings,

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, 2008), p. 78-79. In the 1950s, the building was slated for demolition as part of

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program, but the parish resisted and eventually, after 10 years, won the battle. It became the only structure within in its neighborhood not to have been razed by Moses. On September 26, 2009, the building was listed on the

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