Location:
47 West 20th Street at Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
The Church of the Holy Communion was the first church in New York to have free pews. It was also one of the first to have weekly communion services. Its sisterhood of women church works, begun in 1852, opened new fields of church social ministry for women. In 1883, the church hosted the first convention of black Episcopal clergymen organized by The Reverend Alexander Crummell and a teacher and deacon at St. Philip’s Church in Harlem.
The church was designated as a New York City landmark in the mid 1960’s. Refer to a more current photograph.
County: Manhattan
Year closed: 1975
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