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Second Dutch Reformed Church
Newark (Ironbound district), Essex County

Designed by architect William Kirk, the architect for several other Reformed churches in the area, the Second Dutch Reformed Church was built in 1848, the year the congregation was organized in what was then a largely German section of the city. At one time it looked much like other Reformed churches in the region, but the steeple was removed and the portico added sometime later. It passed into the hands of the Catholic Church and was renamed Our Lady of Mount Carmel. No services were held in it between 1972 and 1978, when it became a cultural center. Recently restored, it is now the Centro Evangelistico da Igreja Assembleia de Deus.

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