A Peek Inside the Brown Memorial Baptist Church

This week Community Board 2 held its last board meeting before summer recess at Clinton Hill’s Brown Memorial Church, which has received a lot of attention as of late. The board took a tour of the sanctuary and heard about its impressive renovation project. Renovations completed include repainting all the walls (we were told the congregation scraped off an awful blue paint in preparation), refinishing the wood banisters, designing the chandeliers (reproduced from the originals), and stabilizing the roof which was close to falling down. The reno, however, isn’t complete, and the latest project will be restoring the Tiffany stained glass windows. There are twelve windows in all, two large and ten small. The church just received a $200,000 Partners in Preservation grant to help them along, and expect to finish the restoration within two years. Click through for more photographs of the fantastic interior. GMAP

This titled mural is 101 years old.

The first stained glass window to be restored.

This is the second window that will be restored.

The smaller stained glass windows.