Zion Episcopal Church is a historic
Episcopal church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
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in
Palmyra
Palmyra (; Palmyrene: () ''Tadmor''; ar, تَدْمُر ''Tadmur'') is an ancient city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second ...
,
Wayne County, New York
Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 91,283. The county seat is Lyons. The name honors General Anthony Wayne, an American Revolutionary War hero and American statesman.
Wayne Coun ...
. It was designed in a
Late Gothic Revival style by
Emlyn T. Littel and was built in 1872. It is built of
Medina sandstone
Medina sandstone is a geographic subset of the Medina Group stratigraphic formation in New York state and beyond. The name refers specifically to sandstone first quarried in Medina, NY and later quarried in other locations in Orleans County and ...
with
limestone
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trim. Its roof features polychrome slate shingles.
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1996. In 2009, it was included in the
Palmyra Village Historic District
Palmyra Village Historic District is a national historic district at Palmyra in Wayne County, New York.
The district includes 207 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object. It encompasse ...
.
References
External links
Zion Episcopal Church website
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Episcopal church buildings in New York (state)
Churches in Wayne County, New York
Gothic Revival church buildings in New York (state)
Churches completed in 1872
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, New York
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