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President Dwight D. Eisenhower laying the Interchurch Center's cornerstone on October 12, 1958. The center was built in 1958 with gifts by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other donors, together with a consortium of religious denominations, with the objective of encouraging cooperative work among such diverse religious groups as the Orthodox, African-American, and mainstream Protestant ...
Riverside Drive is a north–south avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The road runs on the west side of Upper Manhattan, generally paralleling the Hudson River and Riverside Park between 72nd Street and the vicinity of the George Washington Bridge at 181st Street. North of 96th Street, Riverside Drive is a wide divided roadway.
Marc Eidlitz & Son, Inc. was hired as the contractor for the construction of the new Riverside Drive church. [49] On November 21, 1927, the church's ceremonial cornerstone was laid, marking the start of construction. [49] [50] [51] The cornerstone included items such as Woelfkin's Bible and New York Times articles about the new church.
[61] [291] [205] Riverside Church on Riverside Drive is an interdenominational church associated with the Baptists. [ 286 ] [ 206 ] Several other religiously affiliated institutions are located in the neighborhood, including the Church of Notre Dame , a Roman Catholic church on 114th Street that is part of the Archdiocese of New York .
The Church of Our Lady of Esperanza is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 624 West 156th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City.
James Alexander Forbes, Jr. is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. He was the first African American minister to lead this multicultural congregation, and served it for 18 years.
The Charles M. Schwab House (also called Riverside) was a 75-room mansion on Riverside Drive, between 73rd and 74th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed for steel magnate Charles M. Schwab .
It is the second-oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City and the fifth-oldest synagogue building in the United States. [1] Rodeph Sholom moved to Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, to a new Victorian Romanesque building designed by D. & J. Jardine and built in 1872–73 for Ansche Chesed. Simeon Abrahams conveyed land to the ...