Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights collection 1848-1970

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Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights collection 1848-1970

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arc_127_grace_church_brooklyn_heights/arc_127_grace_church_brooklyn_heights.html

0.63 Linear feet; in one full manuscript box and one half manuscript box.

Center for Brooklyn History (2020-)

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Grace Church (Brooklyn Heights, New York, N.Y.)

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Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights was incorporated in 1847. Before the Church's founding, many Brooklyn Episcopalians crossed the East River into lower Manhattan every Sunday to attend services at Grace Church, New York. However, when this latter church moved further north to Broadway and 10th Street, Brooklyn parishioners found the weekly journey across the river to be too impractical, and consequently merged with the Episcopal congregation at Brooklyn's Emmanuel Church on Sidney Stre...