New Middle Collegiate Church

Coordinates: 40°43′40″N 73°59′17″W / 40.727732°N 73.988092°W / 40.727732; -73.988092

New Middle Collegiate Reformed Church
(2010)
Location	Second Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets, New York, New York
Country	United States
Denomination	Reform
Architecture
Architect(s)	S. B. Reed
Architectural type	Gothic Revival

The New Middle Collegiate Church, on Second Avenue in the East Village is located between 6th and 7th Streets.^[1] It was built in 1891 and designed by S. B. Reed and was "'thoroughly equipped' as one guide said, 'with reading-rooms, gymnasium, and all appliances for aggressive modern church work'." ^[2] The stained-glass windows are of Tiffany glass.^[3] The church was the successor of the Second Middle Collegiate Church, also known as the Lafayette Place Middle Dutch Church, built 1839 and abandoned by the congregation in 1887. The congregation was founded in 1628, and is the oldest continuous Protestant congregation in North America. Other existing churches tracing their congregational founding to the same first Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of 1628 include West End Collegiate Church (built 1892), located on the corner of West End Avenue and 77th Street, and Marble Collegiate Church, located at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Ninth Street, and the Fort Washington Collegiate Church. All are part of the Reformed Church in America.

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Notes

1. ^ Congregation History
2. ^ Nathan Silver, Lost New York, (New York: Weathervane Books, 1967), p.147
3. ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0812931076.