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The new building was the work of architect Wilfred E. Anthony (1878–1948). [2] [6] Henrietta died in December 1921, aged 79; it is not known whether she got to see the finished building. On March 31, 1978, the Church of Sweden Abroad bought the property from the New York Bible Society for $570,000. [2]
Marble Collegiate Church, on Fifth Avenue at 29th Street. The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is a Dutch Reformed congregation in Manhattan, New York City, which has had a variety of church buildings and now exists in the form of four component bodies: the Marble, Middle, West End and Fort Washington Collegiate Church, all part of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of New York.
Also in 1870, the synod was renamed the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America. In 1894 the name was changed to Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America. In 1948, the name Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church was adopted. [4] In 1922, the synod was given equal standing in Sweden with the Swedish synods. [5]
Polshek Partnership Architects was contracted to design the new and modern Scandinavia House According to the New York Times, the president of the ASF, Edward P. Gallagher, stated that it was a "fully public building". [4] It offers a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) can refer to any of several historically related Christian denominations that developed under the influence of the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). The Swedenborgian tradition is considered to be a part of Restorationist Christianity. [1]
Olof Gustaf Hedstrom (11 May 1803 – 5 May 1877) was a Swedish-American minister who oversaw the Bethel Ship mission serving sailors and immigrants arriving in New York City from 1845-1876. Hedstrom's ministry influenced Swedish settlement patterns in the United States and established the earliest Swedish Methodist congregations in New York ...
New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas.
Sawyer Memorial Universalist Church was a historic church in Harlem, New York. [1] The Second Universalist Society was organized early in the 19th century, and in 1832 acquired the Reformed Dutch Church at 97 Orchard Street. This church was torn down three decades later, and the society was in Oliver Street for a few years.