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The Second Congregational Church in New York[1]
The congregation's first church
Location within New York
General information
Architectural style	Greek Revival[2]
Location	NW corner of Mercer and Prince Streets[4]
Inaugurated	Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, December 7, 1826[5]
Destroyed	Sunday morning, November 26, 1837 (burned to ground)[6]
Design and construction
Architect	Josiah R. Brady[7]

The Church of the Messiah[8]
The congregation's second church
General information
Architectural style	"Semi-Gothic"[9]
Location	728-30 Broadway, at Waverly Place, New York City[10]
Inaugurated	May 2, 1839[11]
Destroyed	December 23, 1884 by fire[12]
Cost	$90,000[13]

The Church of the Messiah
The congregation's third church
Alternative names	Community Church of New York (as of 1919)[14]
General information
Architectural style	Victorian Romanesque[15]
Location	NW corner Park Avenue and 34th Street[16]
Inaugurated	1867[17]
Demolished	1930[18]
Design and construction
Architect	Carl Pfeiffer[19]

The Second Congregational Church in New York, organized in 1825, was a Unitarian congregation which had three permanent homes in Manhattan, the second of which became a theater after they left it. In 1919 the congregation became non-denominational and changed its name to Community Church of New York.^[20] The same year, its church on 34th Street was damaged by fire.^[21] Since 1948 the congregation has been located at 40 East 35th Street, in a sanctuary shared with the Metropolitan Synagogue of New York.^[22]

The Church of the Messiah at 728-730 Broadway, near Waverly Place, was dedicated in 1839 and operated as such until 1864. In January 1865 it was sold to department store magnate A. T. Stewart and converted into a theater which subsequently operated under a series of names, ending with The New Theatre Comique. It burned down in 1884.^[23]

Theater Names

728-30 Broadway in 1867

• 1865 – Athenaeum


• 1865 – Lucy Rushton's Theatre


• 1866 – New York Theatre


• 1867 – The Worrell Sisters' New York Theatre


• 1868 – New York Theatre


• 1868 – The Worrell Sisters' Theatre


• 1870 – The Globe Theatre


• 1871 – Nixon's Amphitheatre


• 1872 – The Broadway Theatre


• 1873 – Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre


• 1873 – Daly's Broadway Theatre


• 1874 – Fox's Broadway Theatre


• 1874 – The Globe Theatre


• 1876 – Heller's Wonder Theatre


• 1877 – Wood's Theatre


• 1877 – Neil Bryant's Opera House


• 1877 – National Theatre


• 1878 – The Globe Theatre


• 1879 – The New York Circus


• 1879 – The Broadway Novelty Theatre


• 1881 – The New Theatre Comique


• 1884 – Destroyed by fire

As the Globe Theatre

References

Further reading

• Brown, Thomas Allston A History of the New York Stage: From the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Vol. 2 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company; 1903)


• CCNY: The Community Church of New York website (accessed June 18, 2013)


• Dewey, Mary Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter (Project Gutenberg™, 2006, e-book; epub-format version)


• Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), p. 48 (e-book p. 126), "Community Church in New York|Metropolitan Synagogue in New York;" Map E (e-book pp. 37–8); and Map H (e-book p. 44)


• Greenleaf, Jonathan A History of the Churches, of All Denominations, in the City of New York (New York: E. French, 1846)


• IBDB: "New Theatre Comique" at the Internet Broadway Data Base (accessed April 25, 2010)


• MPW: "Church of the Messiah" (scroll down), Manhattan Places of Worship (web page; accessed January 1, 2014)


• NYT-1: "Church of Messiah Adopts New Name," The New York Times, May 26, 1919


• NYT-2: "To Restore Burned Church," The New York Times, September 13, 1919


• Perris, William Maps of the City of New York, Vol. 5. (New York: Perris & Browne, 1854) Plate 61. At New York Public Library Digital Gallery Image ID: 1615960 (search on number)


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  Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; and Fishman, David. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999)

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Coordinates: 40°43′45.8″N 73°59′35.3″W / 40.729389°N 73.993139°W / 40.729389; -73.993139