| Christ Church Lutheran | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival architecture |
| Town or city | New York, New York |
| Country | United States of America |
| Construction started | 1901[1] |
| Completed | 1859,[2][3] 1901,[3] 1948[3][2] |
| Cost | $10,000 (1901)[1] |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | masonry |
| Design and construction | |
| Client | Evangelical Lutheran Church of Christ[1] |
| Architect | F. A. Minuth of 289 Fourth Avenue (1901),[1] Herbert E. Matz[2] |
Christ Church Lutheran is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America church located in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City. The address is 123 East 15th Street at Irving Place, New York, New York 10003. It was founded as the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Christ, and has had four premises in its history.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Christ congregation was founded in 1868 above a blacksmith shop on East 14th Street. The congregation was of German and English descent. A more permanent presence was established in 1882 when the church purchased the former mission chapel, the Chapel of Free Grace, located at 406 East 19th Street, which had been built in 1859 by St. George's Episcopal Church. It was a gable-fronted steeply pitched masonry Gothic Revival church with a gable rose window.[2] The church built five-storey brick dwelling house in 1901 to designs by F. A. Minuth of 289 Fourth Avenue for $10,000. It was located on 19th Street and 160 East First Street.[1]
The 19th Street church building was demolished when Metropolitan Life Insurance redeveloped the area into Stuyvesant Town in 1948. The new church with Gothic Revival details and located a block to the west on 15th Street, was built 1948 to designs by Herbert E. Matz. This structures was sold in 2007 to a developer who adaptively reused the church as a residence and added a luxury condo tower with six three-bedroom units above the church. Thereafter the congregation has been meeting in "the facilities of the Seafarer and International House at 123 East 15th Street at Irving Place."[2]