- Church of the Epiphany (Manhattan)
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Coordinates: 40°44′14″N 73°58′55″W / 40.737099°N 73.981926°W
The Church of the Epiphany 
General information Town or city Manhattan, New York City Country United States of America Construction started Church: 1965
Rectory: 1936[1]Cost Church: $1,200,000 (1965)
Rectory: $50,000 (1936)[1]Design and construction Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Architect Church: Belfatto & Pavarini
Rectory: Robert J. Reiley[1]The Church of the Epiphany is a Roman Catholic parish church of the Archidiocese of New York, located at 373 Second Avenue at the corner of East 22nd Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1868.[2] The church was designed by Belfatto & Pavarini and built in 1965-67 for $1,200,000, replacing an earlier church of the same name designed by Napoleon LeBrun and built in 1869-70, which burnt down in December 1963.[3] A four-story brick rectory had been built at 239 East 21st Street in 1936, designed by Robert J. Reiley.[1]
The AIA Guide to New York City called the church: "The most positive modernist religious statement on Manhattan Island to date."[4]
References
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- ^ a b c d Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (Accessed 25 Dec 2010).
- ^ Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.325.
- ^ Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-231-12543-7, p.65
- ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0812931076., p. 211
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1967
- 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings
- Religious organizations established in 1868
- Roman Catholic churches in New York
- Churches in Manhattan
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- United States church stubs
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