Brooklyn Heights
St. Ann’s Church. Photo via Wikipedia

There’s a certain salvation to the stunning architecture of Brooklyn Heights’s many churches, independent of their religiosity.

On January 31, take a walk past a curated assortment of some of the Height’s 19th-century Gothic Revival gems with architectural historian Matt Postal of the Municipal Art Society of New York.

The tour will explore at least one church by each of the area’s major architects — Minard Lafever, James Renwick and Richard Upjohn — and will end with a private tour of Upjohn’s Grace Church, designed in 1847.

Historian Marianne Hurley will also join the moving lecture to discuss a human element to the buildings: their congregation’s history, as well as efforts to restore Grace Church’s Puginesque interiors.

It’ll be an experience at the gates to heaven, or an architect’s heaven on earth.

The experience starts at 11 a.m. on Sunday, January 31. Tickets, which cost $30 ($20 for Municipal Art Society members), are available online or by calling (212) 935 2075.

Brooklyn Heights
Grace Church’s exterior. Photo via Wikipedia
Brooklyn Heights
Photo of Grace Church via Grace Church

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