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In the fifty years after the Constitution wassigned in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolisof over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a oncetightknit community and its religious experience. These effects were felt byTrinity Episcopal Church, w...

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Main Author: Bulthuis, Kyle T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Series:Early American places
Subjects:
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 18th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 19th century.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Christianity.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
New York (State) > New York
1700-1899
Church history
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In the fifty years after the Constitution wassigned in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolisof over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a oncetightknit community and its religious experience. These effects were felt byTrinity Episcopal Church, which had presented itself as a uniting influence inNew York, that connected all believers in social unity in the late colonialera. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churchesreformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. Trinity's original visionof uniting the commu.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781479894178
1479894176