The New Jersey Churchscape

The New Jersey Churchscape

The New Jersey Churchscape is a book and website from Frank L. Greenagel. [cite web |url=http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__The_New_Jersey_Churchscape_930.html |title=The New Jersey Churchscape |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote= |publisher=Rutgers University Press ] Greenagel spent five years researching and photographing 1,100 churches in New Jersey and his book includes photos and background information on 225 of them. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=First Comes the Church |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3D81339F930A25752C0A9649C8B63&fta=y |quote=|publisher=New York Times |date=January 13, 2002 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

References

reflist The Historic Churches of Somerset County, New Jersey. The History Press, 2006.

There are approximately 1,400 churches, synagogues and meetinghouses in New Jersey that were built before 1900. Greenagel has been photographing and researching them for 9 years, and is in the process of publishing a complete, county by county inventory of all the surviving 18th and 19th century churches in the state. Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren Counties have been completed as of 12-31-2007.


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