Gebruiker:Hannolans/Sint-Nicolaaskerk (New York)

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Locatie New York City
Bouw gereed 1872
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Architect W. Wheeler Smith
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De Sint-Nicolaaskerk in York (Engels: St. Nicholas Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church) was een Reformed Protestant Dutch kerk in Midtown Manhattan, New York opgericht door Nederlandse Amerikanen. De kerk is in 1949 gesloopt en was in die tijd de oudste kerkgemeente in Manhattan. De kerk was gevestigd aan de noordwestelijke hoek van de Fifth Avenue en 48th Street bij het Rockefeller Center. De kerk was in 1872 gebouwd naar neogotisch ontwerp in brownstone door architect W. Wheeler Smith.

De Sint-Nicolaaskerk was de kerk in New York die bezocht werd door Theodore Roosevelt, en een herdenkingsdienst werd voor hem gehouden op 30 januari 1919.[1]

In the 1920s, during the construction of the Rockefeller Center, the governing body of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of New York considered putting the church up for sale, which prompted an early preservation campaign in New York with the Rev. Dr, Joseph R. Sizoo, the church’s minister, arguing that the church was “a shrine” and its sale would put the dollar sign before the cross. Despite initial success, the pastor, Rev. Dr. Malcolm James MacLeod, later reneged on the church's intention to sell to the Rockefeller complex for as much as $7 million.[2] the tension between the minister with congregation and the pro-sale church governing body led most of the congregation and Sizoo to leave. The governing body pitched the sale again in 1946,[3] and after "considerable public debate", a deal was made in 1949.[4] The church was demolished to make way for the Sinclair Oil Company Building at 596 (now 600) Fifth Avenue.[5]

De bel van de kerk kwam van de Middle Collegiate Church, gebouwd in de jaren 1830 op Lafayette Place (nu Lafayette Street) nadat deze werd afgebroken. Na de afbraak van de Sint-Nicolaaskerk werd de bel verplaatst naar de New Middle Collegiate Church op Second Avenue.[6]

Lijst van pastoren[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

  • 1900—1908: Donald Sage Mackay, D.D., L.L.D.
  • 1910— : Malcolm James MacLeod DD
  • 1936—1947: Joseph R. Sizoo[7]

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  1. ↑ Memorial service for Theodore Roosevelt in his ancestral church, the Church of St. Nicholas: January thirtieth, A.D. 1919 (Lehmaier Press, 1919)
  2. ↑ (en) "CHURCH WON'T SELL SITE TO ROCKEFELLER", The New York Times, 1929. Geraadpleegd op 22 november 2017.
  3. ↑ (en) "Plan to Sell St. Nicholas Church For $3,000,000 Stirs Conflict; PROPOSAL TO SELL CHURCH IS OPPOSED AVENUE LANDMARK MAY BE SOLD", The New York Times, 1946. Geraadpleegd op 22 november 2017.
  4. ↑ (en) "St. Nicholas Church to Be Razed To Make W ay for Office Building; TO BE ERECTED ON CHURCH SITE LONG LEASE CLOSES ST. NICHOLAS FIGHT", The New York Times, 1 april 1949. Geraadpleegd op 22 november 2017.
  5. ↑ Stern, Robert A. M., Mellins, Thomas, and Fisman, David. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World War and Bicentennial (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995), p.1106
  6. ↑ David W. Dunlap, From Abyssinian to Zion: a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), p. 145
  7. ↑ Armin Haeussler, The story of our hymns: the handbook to the Hymnal of the Evangelical and Reformed Church (1952), p. 954: "Dr. Joseph Sizoo, pastor of St. Nicholas Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church, New York, from 1936 to 1947"
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