Sacred Havens A Guide to Manhattan's Spiritual Places

by Cook, Terri

• ISBN13: 9780824519605
• ISBN10: 0824519604
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Crossroad

Summary

Our revealing tour takes you from America's oldest Methodist church to the world's largest synagogue and from a Buddhist temple in Chinatown to the Roman Catholic church where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis prayed.

Table of Contents

LOWER MANHATTAN and LOWER EAST SIDE
Battery Park to East 14th Street
Features
National Museum of The American Indian	4	(3)
Shrine of St. Elizabeth Seton	7	(3)
Trinity Church	10	(5)
St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church	15	(2)
St. Peter's Church	17	(3)
John Street United Methodist Church	20	(2)
Church of St. Andrew	22	(3)
Eldridge Street Synagogue	25	(3)
Sung Tak Buddhist Association	28	(2)
St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery	30	(4)
Grace Church	34	(3)
St. Ann's Armenian Catholic Cathedral	37	(3)
The Gandhi Garden	40	(3)
By The Way
East Coast Memorial	43	(1)
The Upper Room	43	(1)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial	43	(1)
African Burial Ground	43	(1)
New Ring Shout	44	(1)
Triumph of The Spirit & Still I Rise	44	(1)
Civic Center Synagogue	45	(1)
St. James Church	45	(1)
Shearith Israel Cemetery	46	(1)
Mariner's Temple	46	(1)
Lin Ze Yu & Kimlau War Memorial	46	(1)
Church of The Transfiguration	47	(1)
Eastern States Buddhist Temple of America	47	(1)
First Chinese Presbyterian Church	47	(1)
St. Teresa	48	(1)
St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church	48	(1)
Mahayana Temple Buddhist Association	48	(1)
St. Mary's Church	49	(1)
Bialystoker Synagogue	49	(1)
Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagodol	50	(1)
First Roumanian-American Congregation	50	(1)
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral	50	(1)
St. Michael's Russian Catholic Chapel	51	(1)
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection & New York City Marble Cemetery	51	(1)
Church of The Mostr Holy Redeemer	52	(2)
St. Brigid's Church	54	(1)
Slocum Memorial Fountain	54	(1)
St. Nicholas of Myra Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church	54	(1)
St. Stainslaus Roman Catholic Church	55	(1)
Community Synagogue/Max D. Raiskin Center	55	(1)
Middle Collegiate Church	56	(1)
St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church	56	(1)
Edgar M. Brofman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU	57	(1)
Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue	57	(1)
The Village Temple	57	(1)
Immaculate Conception Church	58	(4)
EAST SIDE OF MANHATTAN
north of 15th Street to 103rd Street
Features
The Brotherhood Synagogue	62	(2)
Marble Collegiate Church and the Poling Chapel	64	(3)
The Church of the Transfiguration	67	(5)
St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral	72	(3)
Tillman Chapel at Church Center for the United Nations	75	(3)
St. Bartholomew's Church	78	(3)
The Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral	81	(4)
St. Thomas Church	85	(4)
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church	89	(3)
The Erol Becker Chapel of The Good Shepherd at Saint Peter's Church	92	(3)
Christ Church	95	(3)
Central Presbyterian Church	98	(3)
Temple Emanu-El	101	(3)
Church of St. Vincent Ferrer	104	(4)
St. John Nepomucene	108	(2)
The Unitarian Church of All Souls	110	(3)
Church of St. Thomas More	113	(3)
Islamic Cultural Center of New York	116	(3)
By The Way
St. Mary's Catholic Church of The Byzantine Rite	119	(1)
Friend's Meeting House	119	(1)
St. George's Episcopal Church & Manhattan Cornerstone Presbyterian Church	119	(1)
Calvary Episcopal Church	120	(1)
Lutheran Church of Gustavus Adolphus	120	(1)
St. Stephen's Church & Our Lady of The Scapular	121	(1)
Church of The Good shepherd	121	(1)
Church of The Incarnation	121	(1)
Church of OUr Saviour	122	(1)
Church of St. Agnes	122	(1)
UN Meditation Room	122	(1)
UN Gardens	123	(1)
Raoul Wallenberg Memorial	124	(1)
Church of The Holy Family	124	(1)
Church of Sweden	125	(1)
Central Synagogue	125	(1)
L'Eglise Francaise du Saint Esprit	125	(1)
Trinity Baptist Church	126	(1)
Our Lady of Peace Church	126	(1)
Park East Synagogue	127	(1)
St. John The Martyr	127	(1)
St. James' Church	127	(1)
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church	128	(1)
Church of The Resurrection	129	(1)
Temple Israel	129	(1)
St. Jean Baptiste Church	130	(1)
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral	130	(1)
St. Monica's Church	131	(1)
Zion-St. Mark's Lutheran Church	131	(1)
St. Ignatius Loyola Church	132	(1)
Park Avenue United Methodist Church	132	(1)
Park Avenue Synagogue	132	(1)
St. Joseph's Church of Yorkville	133	(1)
Church of The Holy Trinity	134	(1)
Immanuel Lutheran Church	134	(1)
Church of The Heavenly Rest	135	(1)
Brick Presbyterian Church	135	(1)
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral	136	(4)
UPPER MANHATTAN and HARLEM
North of 105rd Street
Features
All Saints' Church	140	(2)
Metropolitan Baptist Church	142	(3)
Mother AME Zion Church	145	(3)
Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church	148	(3)
St. Martin's Episcopal Church	151	(3)
Mount Olivet Baptist Church	154	(2)
Riverside Church	156	(4)
St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University	160	(3)
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine	163	(5)
By The Way
Central Park Conservatory Garden	168	(1)
Duke Ellington Memorial	169	(1)
St. Cecilia's Church	169	(1)
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel & St. Ann's Church & St. Lucy's	170	(1)
Elmendorf Reformed Church	171	(1)
Marcus Gravey Memorial Park	171	(1)
Metropolitian Community United Methodist Church	171	(1)
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church	171	(1)
Mount Moriah Baptist Church	172	(1)
Abraham Lincoln and Child	172	(1)
Abyssinian Baptist Church	172	(1)
Victory Tabernacle Seventh-Day Christian Church	173	(1)
St. Mark's United Methodist Church & Salem United Methodist Church & Mount Calvary United Methodist Church	173	(1)
St. Philip's Church	174	(1)
St. Aloysius' Church	174	(1)
Greater Metropolitan Baptist Church	175	(1)
Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle	175	(1)
Bethelite Community Church	176	(1)
New Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation	176	(1)
Mount Morris-Ascension Presbyterian Church	176	(1)
Emanuel AME Church	177	(1)
First Corinthian Baptist Church	177	(1)
Memorial Baptist Church	177	(1)
Canaan Baptist Church	178	(1)
Malcolm X Plaza	178	(1)
The Cloisters	179	(1)
Our Lady of Esperanza	179	(1)
Church of the Intercession	180	(1)
Our Lady of Lourdes Church	181	(1)
St. Luke's Church & Covenant Avenue Baptist Church & St. James Presbyterian Church	181	(1)
St. Mary's Church-Manhattanville	182	(1)
Grant's Tomb	182	(1)
Jewish Theological Seminary	183	(1)
James Memorial Chapel at Union Theological Seminary	183	(1)
Eglise de Notre Dame	183	(1)
New York Buddhist Church	184	(4)
WEST SIDE AND GREENWICH VILLAGE
South of 103rd Street to West Houston Street
Features
St. Paul The Apostle Church	188	(2)
St. Malachy's: The Actors' Chapel	190	(3)
Church of St. Mary The Virgin	193	(4)
Church of St. Francis of Assisi	197	(3)
Chapel of The Good Shepherd at General Theological Seminary	200	(4)
St. Francis Xavier Church	204	(3)
Church of The Ascension	207	(3)
Holy Trinity Chapel at NYU	210	(2)
Church of St. Luke-In-The Fields	212	(3)
Church of St. Veronica-In-The-Village	215	(3)
By The Way
St. Michael's Episcopal Church	218	(1)
First Church of Christ Scientist	219	(1)
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun	219	(1)
Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew & West Side Institutional Synagogue & The Korean Presbyterian Church & Iglesia Cristo Vivo	220	(1)
Congregation Rodeph Shalom & Congregation Chasam Sofer	221	(1)
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church	221	(1)
West End Collegiate Church	222	(1)
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial	222	(1)
Strawberry Fields in Central Park	223	(1)
Blessed Sacrament Church	223	(1)
Shearith Israel Synagogue	224	(1)
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue	224	(1)
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church	225	(1)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	225	(1)
Society For Ethical Culture & The City Church New York	226	(1)
Robert Moses Memorial	226	(1)
American Bible Society	227	(1)
Calvary Baptist Church	227	(1)
St. Luke's Luteran Church	227	(1)
Holy Cross Church	228	(1)
Church of The Holy Apostles & Congregation Beth Simchat Torah	228	(1)
Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava	229	(1)
St. Vincent de Paul Church	230	(1)
Shearrith Israel Cemeteries	230	(1)
Church of the Guardian Angel	230	(1)
St. Peter's Church	231	(1)
Shrine Church of Our Lady of Guadulupe	231	(2)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux	233	(1)
Metropolitan-Duane United Methodist Church	233	(1)
First Presbyterian Church	233	(1)
Jefferson Community Garden	234	(1)
St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village & St. Benedict the Moor	234	(1)
Judson Memorial Baptist Church	235	(1)
Shrine Church of Our Lady of Pompeii	235	(2)
St. Anthony of Padua Church	237