Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church – New York, NY – Harlem One Stop
Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church
Morningside Heights
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St. Michael’s Church was founded as a summer church on its present site in 1807 by New York City residents who lived “in town” five miles to the south. What is now the northern end of the Upper West Side was then a patchwork of farms and country homes. In 1854 the second church was consecrated” a Gothic structure, built of oak.
The current church building, designed by Robert W. Gibson in a Byzantine-Romanesque style, was dedicated on December 16, 1891. Its interior is notable for its appointments by Louis Comfort Tiffany, including the impressive lancet windows in the apse which depict St. Michael’s victory in heaven, and the glass mosaic reredos in the adjoining Chapel of the Angels.
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