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Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (Harlem, New York)

1907 establishments in New York CityChurches completed in 1907Churches in New York CityHarlem
Manhattan Mount Morris Park Historic District 20201014183825
Manhattan Mount Morris Park Historic District 20201014183825

Mt. Olivet Baptist Church is a historic church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Charles T. Walker served as pastor.Rev. O. Clay Maxwell served as pastor. Richetta Randolph Wallace under him. The church building was constructed in 1907 for Temple Israel. It was purchased in 1925 and became the home for Mt. Olivet's African American congregation. Architectural features of the synagogue remain visible. Visitors to the church have included Hugo Chavez, Robert Mugabe, and Howard Dean.The church is at 201 Lenox Avenue, also known as Malcolm X Boulevard. The church hosts an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day service. The Harlem Gospel Choir performs at the church. The Library of Congress has a photograph of attendees taken by Marilyn Nance.

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Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (Harlem, New York)
Malcolm X Boulevard, New York Manhattan

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Mount Olivet Baptist Church

Malcolm X Boulevard 201
10027 New York, Manhattan
New York, United States
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New Bethel Way of the Cross Church of Christ
New Bethel Way of the Cross Church of Christ

New Bethel Way of the Cross Church of Christ (originally Congregation Shaare Zedek of Harlem) is a historic church and former synagogue at 23–25 West 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed by Michael Bernstein in the Moorish Revival style, it occupies a site of 50 by 100 feet (15 by 30 m). The building has a brick facade, terracotta trim, and an asphalt roof. The main elevation of the facade, to the south, has several entrance archways and a circular rose window in the center, as well as twin towers crowned with bulbous, copper-covered domes. Inside, an entrance vestibule leads to a sanctuary with balcony. Stairs lead up to the balcony and down to auxiliary spaces in the basement, and there are a pastor's study and deacon's quarters flanking the sanctuary. The building was developed by Shaare Zedek, a Conservative Jewish congregation that originally met on the Lower East Side before splitting into two congregations in the late 1890s. The subsidiary congregation bought land in 1899 and completed the synagogue in 1901. The main congregation remained on the Lower East Side until 1914, when it merged with the Harlem congregation; it moved out in 1921. The building was then used by another congregation, Chevra Talmud Torah Dagustow, and subsequently by Canaan Baptist Church from 1935 to 1966. Since 1966, it has been used by the Bethel Way of the Cross Church of Christ. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.