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passing trolleys and elevated trains. In June, 1859, Mr. 

 Halsey Knapp was ordained as pastor of the church. 



This concludes the list of what may be termed the "his- 

 toric" churches — those that existed in colonial times or which 

 were established in the first half-century after we became a 

 nation. So much space is given to the Episcopal Church 

 because it was the Established Church of the Province, and 

 its records are the fullest of all. 



There are, in round numbers, one hundred and fifty churches 

 of various denominations in the Borough. The following 

 are some of the pioneer churches of the different sects; the 

 Forest Avenue Congregational Church was established in 1851 

 at East 1 66th Street; the Second Church of the Disciples of 

 Christ was started about 1867 in East 169th Street near 

 Franklin Avenue; the Jewish congregation of B'nai David, at 

 Third Avenue and 175th Street, was established in 1898; the 

 Second Moravian Church was organized in Manhattan in 

 1852, but moved to its present location at Wilkins Avenue and 

 Jennings Street in October, 1906. With such a large influx 

 of Germans, as stated elsewhere, there was early established 

 a Lutheran as well as a Roman Catholic Church. These 

 Germans made efforts as early as 1852 to found a German 

 Lutheran Church; but, though church services were held in a 

 hall at 161st Street, the congregation separated after a year, 

 as no agreement could be reached as to whether the church 

 should be situated in Melrose or Morrisania. As a result, two 

 churches were established, the earlier one, St. Matthew's Ger- 

 man Lutheran Church in East 156th Street, Melrose, and St. 

 John's in East 169th Street between Fordham (Third) and Ful- 

 ton avenues, Morrisania The first of these was incorporated 

 in 1862, and the latter in 1865 ; though both had been organized 

 and services held probably five years earlier than these dates. 



