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Baptist Temple (Brooklyn)

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Baptist Temple is a historic Baptist church at 360 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1893–1894 in the Romanesque Revival style and rebuilt after a fire in 1917–1918. It has a brownstone base and superstructure faced with subtly textured brick with brownstone trim. The building features a large rose window and three corner towers.It is a work of architects Weary & Kramer, and it is a work of Dodge & Morrison.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The historic pipe organ was undergoing a multi-year restoration at the time. It was seriously damaged in a three-alarm fire that broke out on July 7, 2010.

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Baptist Temple (Brooklyn)
3rd Avenue, New York Kings County

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11227 New York, Kings County
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