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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is a parish of the Episcopal Church located at 131 East 10th Street, at the intersection of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The property has been the site of continuous Christian worship since the mid-17th century, making it New York City's oldest site of continuous religious practice. The structure is the second-oldest church building in Manhattan.[3]

Location

131 E. 10th St. (at Second Ave.)
Manhattan, New York City

40°43′49″N 73°59′15″W / 40.73028°N 73.98750°W / 40.73028; -73.98750

1795;[1] 1799,
restored 1975–1978,
restored 1978–1984[2]

Ithiel Town, et al.
Harold Edelman

Georgian;[1] Federal body, Greek Revival steeple

stmarksbowery.org

72000885

0229

June 19, 1972[1]

April 19, 1966

In 2020, it reported 103 members, average attendance of 67, and $142,197 in plate and pledge income.

– scholar of the classics

Charles Anthon

Joseph S. Brasuell - Lower East Side community leader who served as warden and vestry member of the Church

– convicted murderer and brother of Samuel Colt – of Colt Revolver fame – was interred in 1842 after his suicide in The Tombs jail.[21]

John C. Colt

(1914-2009) – was a Bronx born American politician who represented the city council district in New York City's Lower East Side and Chinatown from 1974 to 1991.

Miriam Friedlander

– lawyer, sea captain, and a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War; killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg

Augustus van Horne Ellis

– lawyer and politician who served as New York State Attorney General

Thomas Addis Emmet

(1758–1833) – Revolutionary War soldier, who later served as adjutant general of New York State; father of New York Governor and United States Senator Hamilton Fish (1808–1893).

Nicholas Fish

– lawyer and politician

Josiah Ogden Hoffman

(1780–1851) – merchant and Mayor of New York.[22]

Philip Hone

– attorney, Senior Warden of St. Mark's[23]

John Brooks Leavitt

(1778–1841) – Mayor of New York and United States Representative.[22]

Gideon Lee

Commodore – famous for his role in the "opening" of Japan; his body was later moved to Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.

Matthew C. Perry

(1803–1876) – wealthy New York merchant, whose body was stolen two years after his burial and held for ransom.[24]

Alexander Turney Stewart

(1612–1672) – Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.[25]

Peter Stuyvesant

(1774–1825) – Vice President of the United States under President James Monroe and former Governor of New York.[26]

Daniel D. Tompkins

Both the church's East and West Yards have under them stone burial vaults, in which many prominent New Yorkers were interred. Although it no longer does full body burials, the church still does cremation burials in the church vault under the West Yard.[4]

St. Mark's Historic District

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, Memorial of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery: containing an account of the services held to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the dedication of the church on May 9, 1799. New York: Published by the Vestry, 1899

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery website

Self-Guided Walking Tour

The Villager: Dutch remember Stuyvesant in ‘Year of the Hudson’

Lower East Side Preservation Initiative