Four Brooklyn Churches Open for Sacred Sites Weekend

Four churches will be participating in this year’s Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Open House Weekend. This weekend, check out the art and architecture at the following historic houses of worship (descriptions by Landmarks Conservancy):

Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks Street, erected in 1849-50 (pictured above). Fiery abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher preached here from 1847 until 1887.  Among the thousands of worshipers who came to hear him were Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.
First Unitarian Congregational Society, 48 Monroe Place, erected in 1844 in the Gothic Revival style by Minard Lafever.  The design of the building was loosely based on late-English Gothic prototypes, such as Kings College Chapel on Cambridge.
South Bushwick Reformed Church, 15 Himrod Street, completed in a park-like setting by Cornelius Woglom in 1853 by families from twenty neighboring farms. The wood-frame church is unusual in its combination of austere Greek Revival forms and is crowned with a Georgian-inspired tower and steeple.
Grace Episcopal Church, 254 Hicks Street, designed by renowned Gothic Revival architect Richard Upjohn and constructed in 1847-1849.  The sanctuary features figural stained glass memorial windows by many prominent studios, including three windows by the Tiffany studios.