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Westminster Presbyterian Church
Jersey City, Hudson County

 

Bad things have happened to the exterior of this Gothic church, located at Summit and Magnolia in the Five Corners section of the city—it's once shingled exterior how has a layer of stucco, and any other architectural details and textures have been covered over. It was organized as the Prospect Avenue Presbyterian church in 1869 as a prayer meeting, apparently an offshoot of the Bergen Presbyterian congregation. They used the nearby Summit Avene Baptist church on Sunday afternoons until they built a chapel in 1871. Then about 1879 they changed their name to the Westminster Presbyterian Church and erected this building in 1886. It is now occupied by the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox congregation.

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