Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
{{Short description|Church in Manhattan, New York}}
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{{Infobox church
|name = Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
|fullname =
|image = USA-NYC-Madison-Avenue-Presbyterian-Church-1.jpg
|location = New York City, New York
|country = United States
|denomination = Presbyterian Church (USA)
|previous denomination =
|churchmanship =
|membership = 572 (2021){{cite web|title=Church Trends - Madison Avenue|url=https://church-trends.pcusa.org/church/5641/overview/|accessdate=19 June 2023}}
|attendance =
|website = {{URL|mapc.com}}
|former name =
|founded date = 1839
|consecrated date =
|status = Church
|functional status = Active
|style = Neo-Gothic
|architect = James E. Ware & Sons{{cite web|title=Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report|url=https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1051.pdf|work=City of New York, Landmarks Preservation Commission|date=1981}}
|completed date = 1899
|parish = Madison Avenue
|presbytery = Presbytery of New York
|synod = Synod of the Northeast
|seniorpastor = The Rev. Dr. Aaron Janklow
}}
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (MAPC) is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is located at East 73rd Street and Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
History
The congregation was organized in 1839 as Eleventh Presbyterian Church on 4th and Avenue D. The church moved to East 53rd and Madison Avenue in 1872 and changed its name to Memorial Presbyterian Church in commemoration of the Old and New School branches of the denomination.{{cite web|title=New York, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church|work=Presbyterian Historical Society |date=April 21, 2014 |url=https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/church-record-surveys/new-york/new-york-madison-avenue-presbyterian|accessdate=19 June 2023}} The congregation was renamed Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1886.
Phillips Presbyterian Church was organized in 1844 and moved uptown in 1869. In 1872, James Lenox donated a church building, designed in High Victorian Gothic style by R.H. Robertson, on the East 73rd Street site. In 1899, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church merged with Phillips and the church building was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style by James E. Ware. The current location has an 800-seat sanctuary.{{cite web|title=Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and Board of Pensions build partnership on shared values|url=https://www.pensions.org/stories/madison-avenue-presbyterian-church|accessdate=19 June 2023}}
In 1927, George Arthur Buttrick succeeded Henry Sloane Coffin as minister.T. A. Prickett, The Story of Preaching, Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2011, pp. 80-81 [https://books.google.com/books?id=axcv4-7RnS4C&dq=%22george+buttrick%22&pg=PA80] In January 1936, he officiated the wedding of future President Donald Trump's parents, Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, in this church.{{cite book |last1=Trump |first1=Fred |title=All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way |date=2024 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=London |isbn=9781398541016 |oclc=1453469554 |page=29|quote=They married the following January at Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church with a British-born minister named George Arthur Buttrick officiating.}} Writer Frederick Buechner attended MAPC and was eventually ordained there in 1958.{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Emily McFarlan|title=Died: Frederick Buechner, Popular Christian 'Writer's Writer' and 'Minister's Minister|url= https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/august/obit-frederick-buechner-writer-pastor-theologian.html |work=Christianity Today|date=15 August 2022}}
David H. C. Read was pastor of MAPC from 1956 until 1989. During Read's tenure, his sermons were mailed out each Monday as part of a subscription service, and some of his regular radio sermons were broadcast nationally by the National Council of Churches. Read was succeeded by Fred R. Anderson.{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=David H. C. Read Dies at 91; Pastor to a Far-Flung Flock|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/11/nyregion/david-h-c-read-dies-at-91-pastor-to-a-far-flung-flock.html|work=New York Times|date=11 January 2001|access-date=17 February 2024}}
Notable members
- Mary Boone,{{cite news|last=Cascone|first=Sarah|title=She Changed My Life for the Better': Read the Letters Ai Weiwei and Other Art Figures Wrote to Advocate Leniency for Mary Boone |url= https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-world-letters-supporting-mary-boone-1435009|work=Artnet|date=9 January 2019|access-date=17 February 2024}} art dealer and collector
- Frederick Buechner, author and theologian
- Andrew Carnegie,{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E13F6395C1B728DDDAA0A94DC405B898DF1D3|title=Bagpipe Tunes at Carnegie Wedding|access-date=26 March 2014|work=New York Times|date=23 April 1919|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326093809/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E13F6395C1B728DDDAA0A94DC405B898DF1D3 |archive-date=March 26, 2014 }} industrialist and philanthropist
- Lin Yutang,[http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/l/lin-yutang.php Stacey Bieler, "Lin Yutang"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008072111/http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/l/lin-yutang.php |date=2017-10-08 }} Biographical Dictionary of Christianity in China Chinese writer
- Warren Ost, minister and founder of A Christian Ministry in the National Parks
References
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Category:Churches in Manhattan