Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 99001442 Phone +1 212-580-3326 | Built 1903 Opened 1903 Added to NRHP 30 November 1999 | |
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Location 552 W. End Ave., New York, New York Address 552 West End Ave, New York, NY 10024, USA Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar Church of St Luke in the Fields, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Corpus Christi Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Church of the Epiphany Profiles | ||
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church, located at 552 West End Avenue, on the southeast corner of 87th Street, in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood. It was built in 1903 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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History
The congregation was founded in 1871 by the Rev. Dr. Ferdinand C. Ewer, as part of the Anglo-Catholic movement. It first met in the former Holy Light Church (New York City) (a parish for the blind), at 437 Seventh Avenue, then in the former St. Paul's Dutch Reformed Church, located at 54-56 West 40th Street and facing what is now Bryant Park, before erecting the present building.
Architecture
St. Ignatius' graceful English Gothic building was completed in 1902 to designs by architect Charles C. Haight, who also built New York's General Theological Seminary. The cruciform interior is made of Roman brick with a Guastavino tile ceiling.
Music
The church is particularly noted for the excellence of its professional choir and for its notable concert series.