Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Jersey City
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Greenville Zion is one of at least seven Lutheran churches in the city (there were many more at the turn of the century), which is more than any other city in the state. It confirms the substantial immigration from Protestant areas of Germany, probably between 1848 and the 1880s. Greenville was organized in 1866 and this building was erected in 1877, but may have undergone a substantial renovation in 1899. It sits on JFK Boulevard at McAdoo and is obviously in the Gothic tradition.
The design of the Neo-Gothic church, built in 1899, and its corner location was intended as a visual anchor for the ethnic community in Greenville. The church�s fa�ade, which was refinished in red stucco in the 1960s, has four elongated pier buttresses that accent its three sections. At the south and north corners are pier �angle� buttresses capped with smooth stone. The copper clad steeple sits atop the church tower at the right corner of the building. It gives the church an asymmetrical appearance found in many neoclassical Gothic Revival churches. Lancet stained glass windows with stone sills are set in the pointed arches giving greater height to the fa�ade. The windows were made in Germany.
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Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church, Church, Greenville, Jersey City, Gothic Architecture, Hudson County, Gateway, The Gateway Region, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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