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Friday, November 5, 2010

Tabernacle Baptist Church, Second Ave

The Second Avenue Baptist Tabernacle (1850) stood on Second Ave between 10th and 11th Street on the east side of the block.

1893, Baptist Tabernacle is on the right.  View of the east side of the street, uptown is to the left.
Ebay

1928, demolition underway.
NYPL Digital Gallery

1929, demolition continues.
NYPL Digital Gallery

From Abyssinian to Zion: a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship By David W. Dunlap:
The words Baptist Tabernacle can still be seen over a grand doorway at Warren Hall, 168 Second Avenue, testament to the origins of this 15-story building as a Skyscraper Church, designed by Emery Roth.  It occupies the site of a Gothic sanctuary built in 1850 by the Baptist Tabernacle, founded in 1839.  The church, also know as Second Avenue Baptist, shared the block with the New York Historical Society.  The new sanctuary was built from 1928 to 1930 and played a polyglot role in the 1940s, as home to Italian, Polish, and Russian Baptist congregations.  It is now an Urban Outfitters store.
An 1896 article in the NY Times about the foreclosure of the property:
A BAPTIST CHURCH SOLD.; Another of the Troubles of the Second Avenue Tabernacle Society. (PDF)

Emery Roth-designed building goes up on the site.
NYPL Digital Gallery

A view of an entrance to 168 Second Ave, with the words "Baptist Tabernacle" overhead.  (Google)