Built 1883 Opened 17 April 1887 Added to NRHP 16 December 1977 | NRHP Reference # 77000945 Phone +1 718-622-1107 Architect Francis Hatch Kimball | |
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Location 279 LaFayette Ave., Brooklyn, New York Address 279 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA Similar Brooklyn Tabernacle, Old First Reformed Church, Apostolic Faith Mission, Flatlands Dutch Reformed, Church of St Luke and St M Profiles | ||
Emmanuel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on the northwest corner of Lafayette Avenue and St. James Place. It was built 1887 to designs by architect Francis H. Kimball in the Gothic Revival style "as a synthesis of the cathedral type and the Baptist preaching church." It is considered one of Kimball's finest designs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The congregation was established around 1882 with 194 members that had broken from the Washington Avenue Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York). The Emmanuel congregation commissioned architect E. L. Roberts, the architect of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, to build them a small, Gothic-style, two-story interim chapel on St. James Place (1882–1883)." Fund raising for the permanent church began in 1884 and the church was opened on April 17, 1887. Noted architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler praised it as "a very rich scholarly and well considered design." The most conspicuous design feature of the interior was the central font.