Fort Washington Collegiate Church Fellowship Hall Magaw Place facade

Fort Washington Collegiate Church Fellowship Hall 181st Street entrance detail

Fort Washington Collegiate Church is a

Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is a Dutch Reformed congregation in Manhattan, New York City, which has had a variety of church buildings and now exists in the form of four component bodies: the Marble, Middle, West End and Fort ...

located at Magaw Place and 181st Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of

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. The congregation's Country Gothic style building was designed by the architecture firm Nelson & Van Wagenen, and constructed in 1908–9 as an outreach of the

West End Collegiate Church The West End Collegiate Church is a church on West End Avenue at 77th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It is part of The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New York, the oldest Protestant church with a continuing o ...

, at a time when the area was a suburb of New York City. It became a full member of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in 1916, along with the

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, Middle and West End Collegiate Churches. Ft. Washington Collegiate incorporates the congregation of the Hamilton Grange Reformed Church and former members of the Harlem Reformed Dutch Church.Congregation History
/ref> The church carried out a major renovation and expansion of its buildings beginning in 2013.

Notable clergy

A. J. Muste Abraham Johannes Muste ( ; January 8, 1885 – February 11, 1967) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist. He is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, antiwar movement, and civil rights movemen ...

was pastor from the time of the church's foundation in 1909 until he left the Reformed Church in 1914 due to an alteration in his theological principles. Rev. Robert Rodriguez was named Pastor in 2013, the first

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pastor in the history of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the United States.

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*{{official, http://www.fortwashingtonchurch.org/ 20th-century Reformed Church in America church buildings Churches completed in 1909 Churches in Manhattan Reformed Church in America churches in New York (state) Washington Heights, Manhattan

Notable clergy

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