Children of the East Harlem neighborhood gather about Rev. Don Benedict (standing right near center door) and Rev. J. Archie Hargraves (extreme right), co-pastors, as they, accompanied by two field workers from the Union Theological Seminary, are about to enter the new East Harlem Protestant Parish. The new "storefront church" is the first unit opened under the sponsorship of the four Protestant denominations: New York City Society of the Methodist Church, Baptist City Society, New York City Congregational Christian Church Association and the Presbytery of New York. Its work will be conducted under the supervision of the New York City Mission Society, with the Union Theological Seminary's field department providing pastors and part-time workers.

1948
ca. 1948

Religious News Service--Archives.
East Harlem Protestant Parish (New York, N.Y.)
Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
New York City Mission Society.
Benedict, Don, 1917-2008.
Hargraves, J. Archie.

Church facilities--New York (State)--New York.
Clergy--New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)
New York.
New York (N.Y.)
North and Central America--United States------Manhattan--New York--New York--Harlem--
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New York (N.Y.)

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photograph : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches

RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 18, image no. P-7839; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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