St. Luke's Lutheran Church

Last updated

Saint Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Luke Lutheran 208 W46 sunny jeh.jpg
(February 2011)
Location map United States Manhattan.png
Red pog.svg
USA New York City location map.svg
Red pog.svg
USA New York location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location308 West 46th Street
Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates 40°45′35″N73°59′19.5″W / 40.75972°N 73.988750°W / 40.75972; -73.988750 Coordinates: 40°45′35″N73°59′19.5″W / 40.75972°N 73.988750°W / 40.75972; -73.988750
Built1922–23 (for church) [1] [2]
1922 (for parish house) [3]
Architect Edward L. Tilton [1] of Tilton & Githens; [2]
Francis Xavier Zettler (for 1923 facade); [2]
"Keally" of 141 East 45th Street (for 1922 parish house) [3]
Architectural style Neo-Perpendicular with Art Moderne detailing (Late Gothic Revival)
NRHP reference No. 07000483 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 1, 2007

Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, also known as The German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Saint Luke's and St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a historic Lutheran church located on Restaurant Row at 308 West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York City.

Contents

History

St. Luke's was founded as a Dutch Reformed congregation in 1850, first meeting in rented rooms on the third floor of a building on 35th Street and 9th Avenue. It reorganized as a Lutheran congregation in 1853. [4]

The church moved several times, acquiring its first owned building, a former Baptist church on 43rd Street, in 1863. It moved in 1875 to 233 West 42nd Street, into the former Forty-second Street Presbyterian Church. [2] Finally, the congregation acquired property at West 46th Street to build its current church. The cornerstone was laid in October 1922 and the church dedicated in September 1923. [4]

For many years, Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and teacher on the radio program, The Bible Study Hour (now known as Dr. Barnhouse & the Bible), held a Bible class on Monday evenings at the church, which lasted until his death in 1960.

An independent congregation without synodic affiliation since 1880, St. Luke's joined the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1987.

Playhouse 46 @ St. Luke's is located on the church's premises.

Architecture

The church was built in 1922–23 to the designs of Edward L. Tilton [1] of Tilton & Githens, [2] with the facade of the nave featuring windows designed by Francis Xavier Zettler. [2] The building was completed in 1923. [2] The architecture has been described as a happy marriage between the Gothic Revival and Art Deco styles. [2] A four-story parish house at 308–316 West 46th Street was built 1922 to designs by architect Francis Keally of 141 East 45th Street at the cost of $150,000. [3]

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grace Toronto Church</span> Church in Toronto, Ontario

Grace Toronto Church is a Presbyterian Church in America congregation worshipping in the historic Old St. Andrew's Church building at 383 Jarvis Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Church of St. Mary the Virgin (Manhattan)</span> United States historic place

The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is an Episcopal Anglo-Catholic church in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, which is part of the Episcopal Diocese of New York of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The church complex is located in the heart of Times Square at 133-145 West 46th Street, with other buildings of the complex at 136-144 West 47th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. It is colloquially known as "Smoky Mary's" because of the amount of incense used in the services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. John's Lutheran Church (Knoxville, Tennessee)</span> Historic church in Tennessee, United States

St. John's Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located at 544 Broadway NW in Knoxville, Tennessee. The church building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both individually and as a contributing property in the Emory Place Historic District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Highland Park, Michigan)</span> Historic church in Michigan, United States

The Prayer Temple of Love Cathedral is located at 12375 Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan. It was built in 1929 as the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit</span>

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit, Michigan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark</span> United States historic place

German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark is a historic church and synagogue building at 323 East 6th Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Renaissance Revival style church was built in 1847 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew which first rented it to St. Mark's and subsequently sold it to them in 1857. By the end of the nineteenth century the congregation was in decline as congregants were moving elsewhere. Much of the church membership was killed in the 1904 General Slocum disaster, most of the victims being women and children, and the congregation never recovered.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Ignatius of Antioch Church (New York City)</span> United States historic place

St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church, located at 552 West End Avenue, on the southeast corner of 87th Street, in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood. It was built in 1903 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West-Park Presbyterian Church</span> Church in New York City

West-Park Presbyterian Church is a Romanesque Revival Presbyterian church located on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue at 86th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It consists of a main sanctuary and chapel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Springfield, Ohio)</span> Historic church in Ohio, United States

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church in downtown Springfield, Ohio, United States. Founded as a German-speaking parish in Springfield's early days, it grew rapidly during its first few decades, and its present large church building was constructed in the 1890s under the direction of one of Springfield's leading architects. The congregation remains in the landmark church building, which has been named a historic site.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Luke's Theatre</span>

St. Luke's Theatre was a 174-seat Off-Broadway theatre at St. Luke's Lutheran Church at 308 West 46th Street, on Restaurant Row, just west of Eighth Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Manhattan)</span> Building in New York City, US

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church located at 3 West 65th Street at the corner of Central Park West in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew (New York City)</span> Church in Manhattan, New York

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew is the oldest Lutheran congregation in North America. The congregation is a member of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Since 2006, the congregation has been located at the Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The congregation has been known by different names, only acquiring the name St. Matthew in 1822 and using it exclusively since 1838.

Messiah Mission Church, also known as Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church, was a Lutheran church in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. The congregation was founded in 1916 and a two-storey brick school and chapel was built 1926 to designs by George W. Conable 46 West 24th Street, at 198-200 Sherman Avenue. The pastor who built the 1926 school church was Frederick P. Wilhem of 609 West 204th Street.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church</span> Building in Manhattan, New York City

Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church was a Lutheran church in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City at 578-580 West 187th Street. The church building built 1925 to 1926 at a cost of $30,000 to designs by an architect Stoyan N. Karastoyanoff of 220 Audubon Avenue. It was demolished and there is no longer a parish of St. Luke's in New York. Before the church was completed the original Lutheran Church of Our Saviour merged with The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement to become Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church.The pastor at the time of construction was the Rev. Arthur E. Deitz.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mount Calvary United Methodist Church (New York City)</span> Building in New York, United States of America

Mount Calvary United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Harlem Village, Manhattan, New York City at 116 Edgecombe Avenue and 140th Street. The congregation occupies the former Lutheran church building of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, which was established in 1896 and built in 1897 as a mission church of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. When Atonement merged with the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, Atonement's congregation moved into Our Saviour's building at 525 West 179th Street and then 580 West 187th Street.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church (New York City)</span> Building in New York, United States of America

Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church is a significant Armenian Apostolic Church in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City at 580 West 187th Street. It occupies the former second location of the Lutheran church of The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, established in 1897 as a mission church of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and built in its second location at West 187th Street. The church building was built between 1925 and 1926 at a cost of $30,000 to designs by an architect Stoyan N. Karastoyanoff of 220 Audubon Avenue. The Lutheran congregation moved into their parish house after the Great Depression and the church and the Armenian Apostolic Church took over the church in 1929.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Stephen of Hungary Church (New York City)</span> Building in New York City, United States

The Church of St. Stephen of Hungary was a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 402-412 East 82nd Street, Manhattan, New York City. It was administered by the Order of Friars Minor from its founding in 1922 until the merger of the parish took place in 2015.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 223.
  3. 1 2 3 Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900–1986," (Accessed 25 December 2010).
  4. 1 2 "A Brief History of Saint Luke's Lutheran Church", StLukesNYC.org, retrieved February 16, 2010
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.