Calvary-St. George's Parish
Calvary-St. George's Parish is an Episcopal parish in Manhattan, New York City. It was formed in 1976 from the merger of the parishes of three churches which were in close proximity:
- St. George's Church, founded in 1749 and located at 209 East 16th Street at Rutherford Place, on Stuyvesant Square;
- Calvary Church, founded in 1832 and located at 273 Park Avenue South on the corner of East 21st Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood near the Flatiron District; and
- Church of the Holy Communion, founded in 1844 and located at 656–662 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at West 20th Street in the Flatiron District.
With all three parishes facing dwindling enrollment and financial problems, the combined parish deconsecrated the Church of the Holy Communion and sold the church buildings to Odyssey House, a drug rehabilitation program, in order to raise money and pay down their debts.[1][2] Odyssey House, in turn, sold them to nightclub entrepreneur Peter Gatien, who opened the New York Limelight club there in 1983. The buildings are currently the location of an upscale boutique mall called the Limelight Marketplace.
The current Priest-in-Charge is Jake Smith, who came to the parish and was ordained as a presbyter in the fall of 2006.[3] The other priests are Ben DeHart, Jim Munroe, and Nancy Hanna.[4] The parish has a soup kitchen ministry at Olmstead Hall which serves a hot meal to approximately 125 persons each Thursday at noon.
The other two sanctuaries of the combined parish both remain in use.[5]
See also
Christianity portal
References
Notes
- Calvary St, George website Accessed:May 19, 2010)
- Mendelsohn, Joyce (1998), Touring the Flatiron: Walks in Four Historic Neighborhoods, New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, ISBN 0-964-7061-2-1, OCLC 40227695, pp.88–89
- Wilmot, Judith. ( October 4–10, 2006). "New priest feels right at home at pulpit in the city". The Villager. (New York). Retrieved April 16, 2016. The Villager website Archived December 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- "Clergy and Staff" Retrieved April 16, 2016. Parish website Archived April 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- Dunlap, David W. (2004). From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12543-7. pp.36–37
