FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Upper West Side

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The First Baptist Church’s congregation’s history goes back to 1745, first occupying a loft on downtown William Street in 1753, then its first proper church building on Gold Street in 1760 under Rev. John Gano, who had baptized George Washington and later was a founder of Brown University in Rhode Island. A second Gold Street [...]

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