No. 104 June 2013
The authoritative source on
early churches in New Jersey
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We've created a database
and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th
century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome
and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.
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Vintage photographs
Although the website was created to make available contemporary photographs, there are too many interesting churches that have disappeared—except on old albumen prints or in engravings made for pre-1900 books and magazines. We solicit such images from our readers and will reproduce at least one every month, along with such historical information as we can find about these vanished churches.
If you would like to see an image in your possession on this site, we are pleased to receive your own scans, or you may send us the photograph and we will create a high resolution scan and return the image to you with a copy of the scan and our thanks!Bergen Reformed Church
Jersey City, Hudson County
Founded in 1660, the Dutch Reformed church in Bergen (Jersey City) is the oldest congregation in the state, although the original Reformed congregation merged with a Presbyterian congregation and the result is perhaps more Presbyterian than Reformed, not that there was much difference in creed or liturgy. Both were Calvinist in orientation. This was the congregation's second church--the first was a hexagonal building very much like the early Dutch churches in Brooklyn. This building was succeeded by a Greek Revival church in 1839-1842.
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