CONTEMPORARY NY
New York Architecture Images-Upper East Side

Manhattan Church of Christ

architect

Eggers & Higgins

location

48 East 80th Street

date

1967

style

Brutalism  

construction

Builder: Manhattan Church of Christ

type

Church

 

 

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notes

This house of worship was built by the Manhattan Church of Christ, a nondenominational Protestant congregation. The expressive design of the church is a departure from traditional Gothic and Classical ecclesiastical architecture. An asymmetrical massing, composed of textured precast concrete blocks, frames a 38-by-20-foot abstractly designed stained-glass window. The New Brutalism of the 1960’s is expressed by the church’s volumetric design and concrete structure. 

contact

nyc-architecture.com

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