St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church

            Founded in 1834 on Mulberry Street between Houston and Bleecker streets, the Second Wesleyan Chapel moved uptown to Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street. The new white marble building, with its 210-foot spire, was completed in 1858. Dedicated as St. Paul’s but later renamed the Cathedral Church of Methodism, the church seated 1,300 people. Despite St. Paul’s stature as one of the city’s leading churches, by the 1880s, the encroachment of businesses into the Gramercy Park neighborhood led the declining congregation to sell the building in 1891, after which the congregation began worshipping in temporary quarters at 20th Street and 5th Avenue.

St. Andrew’s Methodist Church, founded on the Upper West Side in 1865, dedicated a building on W. 76th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues. In 1890, the two churches discussed merging. The site at W. 86th Street and West End Avenue was finally purchased in 1894. The church, in a style dubbed "scientific eclecticism," was designed by architect Robert H. Robertson. By the time of the October 3, 1897, dedication, St. Paul’s had dwindled to just 67 members. A long period of periods of prosperity alternated with declines. St. Paul’s membership grew with a jump in December of 1937, when St. Andrew’s, whose membership had dwindled, merged with it to become the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew. 

There was a major exterior renovation in 1968, but by 1975, the congregation debated options for the structure. That led to a vote to demolish it in 1979, but the church building was designated a city landmark in 1981. After the roof of nearby Congregation B’nai Jeshurun collapsed in 199, the two congregations began sharing St. Paul & St. Andrew’s sanctuary. In recent years, the church has also shared space at various times with the Ethiopian Evangelical Church, Iglesia Cristo Vivo, Rivers of Living Water and Broadway United Church of Christ, among others.

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