The New Jersey Churchscape: Encountering Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Churches

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Although best referred to as the Garden State, New Jersey is also {referred to as|called} the Church State. The state boasts thousands of houses of worship, with a couple of thousand still standing that were built within the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Frank L. Greenagel has photographed more than six hundred. He has selected two hundred of these historic landmarks for an examination of why they’re sited where they’re and why they look the best way they do.

Greenagel has sought out and included images of not only mainstream Christian churches, but also Jewish synagogues in addition to the places of worship of religious groups such as the Moravians, the Church of the Brethren, and the Seventh Day Baptists. The photographs are arranged chronologically within sections on three major early settlement regions of the state ¾ the Hudson River, the Delaware River, and the Raritan Valley. For each and every building, Greenagel details the date of construction, the cultural, historic, and non secular influences that shaped it, the architectural details that distinguish it, and what purpose it currently serves.

 

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