Brooklyn Heights, churches, St. Ann and the Holy Trinity / [compiled by Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division].

St. Ann's Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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St. Ann's Church, the oldest Episcopal church in Brooklyn, was incorporated in 1787 as the Episcopal Church of Brooklyn. For its first few years of existence, the Church's services were alternately held in various homes and barns, with significiant financial support being provided by Ann and Joshua Sands. The Sands family later provided a plot of land on their farm for the Church to erect its first edifice, and in 1795, the Church was reincorporated as St. Ann's Church in honor of M...

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

St. Ann and the Holy Trinity (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Church of the Holy Trinity (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Episcopal church founded in Brooklyn Heights in 1847. John Howard Melish was pastor of the church from 1904 until 1949 when he was ousted by the vestrymen because of his son's political activities. The son, William Howard Melish, who was associate pastor of Holy Trinity from 1939 to 1958, was a supporter of civil rights and controversial causes. The controversy involved the congregation in hearings before the diocese and appeals to the courts until the diocese declared t...