National Register of Historic Places

German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark

New York, New York County, New York
Listed
April 14, 2004
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
04000296

About this property

The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark is a historic former church and current synagogue building located at 323 East 6th Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States. The Renaissance Revival style former church was built in 1847 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew which first rented it to St. Mark's and subsequently sold it to them in 1857. By the end of the nineteenth century the congregation was in decline as congregants were moving elsewhere. Much of the church membership was killed in the 1904 General Slocum disaster, most of the victims being women and children, and the congregation never recovered. In 1904, The Ladies' Aid Society (Frauenhilfsverein) chartered the General Slocum steamboat for their summer outing on the East River. The boat caught fire and over 1000 parishioners perished in one of the worst disasters in the city's history. Thereafter Germans began moving uptown from the Lower East Side, primarily to Yorkville and abandoned the church. The parish of St. Mark's merged with the Zion Church in Yorkville in 1946 to become Zion St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 1940, the church was converted to the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, located in the Max D. Raiskin Center, a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation. Evicted from its former premises in 2013, located at 3 West Sixteenth Street, the congregation known as the Young Israel of Fifth Avenue, subsequently merged into the Sixth Street congregation. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, and is located within the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, which was created in October 2012. Media related to Community Synagogue formerly St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Wikimedia Commons

Location

323 E. 6th St.
New York, New York County, New York
40.72709, -73.98700

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German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 14, 2004.

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