Presbyterian Church


Cedar St. 


Created Date:1880 
Standard Reference(s):EM12429


Digital ID: 430927
NYPL Call Number: MEZP

History of the Church

"The Presbytery of New York at their session, the twenty-eight day of June, 
1808, in the City of New York, received under their care a new congregation 
in said city who contemplated worshipping in Cedar Street and permitted them 
to prosecute a call on the Rev. John B. Romeyn of the Presbytery of Albany." 

1808: Our beginnings
So reads the very first entry of The Records of the Session of the 
Presbyterian Church in Cedar Street New York. The entry, like the spirit 
in which it was penned, followed the congregation uptown to Fifth Avenue 
Presbyterian Church. Today, the Cedar Street site in downtown Manhattan is 
the plaza area for the Chase Bank complex, barely recognizable as "good soil," 
but nonetheless the earth from which the tree of life on Fifth Avenue was transplanted". ....

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