Fourth Universalist Society de New York

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La Fourth Universalist Society de New York, en français Quatrième société universaliste, est une congrégation membre de l'Association universaliste unitarienne dont le temple est situé dans l'Upper West Side de Manhattan, le long de Central Park. Elle est universaliste au sens où elle prêche le salut universel, la grâce, l'amour de Dieu inconditionnel pour toute personne.

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Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York

The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York is a congregation within the Unitarian Universalist Association located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It is the last surviving of seven Universalist congregations in the city, founded on the belief of universal salvation that emphasized the love of God for all people. Today, the congregation is pluralistic and non-creedal, welcoming a diverse range of religious beliefs and practices and finding unity in a commitment to social justice.

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The Kenilworth

The Kenilworth is a luxury 12-floor co-operative apartment building in Manhattan on the Gold Coast of Central Park West, located at 151 Central Park West, at 75th Street. Named for the 12-century Kenilworth Castle, construction on the residential building was completed in 1908, and was designed in the French Second Empire-style by architects Townsend, Steinle and Haskell, with three units per floor. The Kenilworth is located within the Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and is a contributing property to the federally designated Central Park West Historic District. Other Beaux-Arts apartment properties in this area of the same period include The Prasada, The Langham, and The Saint Urban.

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American LGBTQ+ Museum

The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a museum in development on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that will focus on New York City's LGBTQ history. It will be part of the campus of the New-York Historical Society, which is undergoing a 70,000 square feet expansion, and is slated to open in 2026. Under the leadership of Richard Burns, the museum's board chair, planning for a museum began in 2017. Ben Garcia was named the museum's first executive director in January 2022 and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina joined as the museum's director of programs and partnerships in 2023. In November 2023, the museum opened Queer Justice: 50 Years of Lambda Legal, their first traveling exhibit at The Center. The exhibit subsequently traveled the country.

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New York Historical

The New York Historical is an American history museum and library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation. The New York Historical Museum & Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building was designed by York & Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style. The building, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, is a New York City designated landmark. A renovation, completed in November 2011, made the building more accessible to the public, provided space for an interactive children's museum, and facilitated access to its collections. Louise Mirrer has been the president of the New York Historical since 2004. Beginning in 2005, the museum presented a two-year exhibit on Slavery in New York, its largest theme exhibition in 200 years on a topic which it had never addressed before. It included an art exhibit by artists invited to use museum collections in their works. The Society generally focuses on the developing city center in Manhattan. Another historical society, the Long Island Historical Society was founded in Brooklyn in 1863. The New York Historical holds an extensive collection of historical artifacts, works of American art, and other materials documenting the history of New York and the United States. It presents well-researched exhibitions on a variety of topics and periods in American history, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Slavery in New York, The Hudson River School, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Tiffany designer Clara Driscoll, and the history of the Constitution. The Society also offers an extensive range of curriculum-based school programs and teacher resources, and provides academic fellowships and organizes public programs for adults to foster lifelong learning and a deep appreciation of history.

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The San Remo

The San Remo is a cooperative apartment building at 145 and 146 Central Park West, between 74th and 75th Streets, adjacent to Central Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed from 1929 to 1930 and was designed by architect Emery Roth in the Renaissance Revival style. The San Remo is 27 stories tall, with twin towers rising from a 17-story base. The building is a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places–listed district, and is a New York City designated landmark. The 17-story base surrounds an internal courtyard to the west, while the 10-story towers rise from the eastern portion of the base. There are numerous setbacks between the 14th and 17th stories, which double as terraces. The first three stories are clad in rusticated blocks of limestone, with two main entrances at ground level. The remainder of the facade is made of light brick with terracotta ornamentation, as well as movable windows to improve air circulation. The tops of the towers contain "temples" with round colonnades and lanterns. The building has twin terrazzo and marble lobbies with molded plaster ceilings. On the upper stories, many apartments contain living and dining rooms arranged around a central gallery, as well as bedrooms in the rear. There were originally 122 apartments, each with six to sixteen rooms, but several apartments have been split or combined over the years. The San Remo replaced an 11-story apartment building with the same name, built in 1891. The current apartment complex was the first building on Central Park West to incorporate large twin towers. The building opened in September 1930, attracting large amounts of commentary from the media. It soon went into receivership following the collapse of the Bank of United States, which held the mortgage. The San Remo experienced financial difficulties throughout much of the 1930s before being acquired in 1940 by an investment syndicate. The building was converted to a housing cooperative in 1972 following a failed conversion attempt in 1970. Over the years, the San Remo has been renovated several times. Its residents have included directors, actors, and musicians.

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Aujourd'hui, la congrégation est pluraliste, non confessionnelle, et accueille un large éventail de croyances et de pratiques religieuses. Elle trouve l'unité dans son engagement pour la justice sociale.

Histoire

La congrégation est fondée en 1838. C'est la quatrième société de New York consacrée à la foi universaliste - la première est l'Unitarian Church of All Souls, Église unitarienne de toutes les âmes. Le premier nom de la congrégation était Friends of the Final Restitution, Amis de la restitution finale. En 1848, elle change son nom en Church of the Divine Paternity, Église de la paternité divine. En 1967, elle prend le nom de Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, qu'elle porte jusqu'à aujourd'hui. En 1898, la congrégation édifie le temple actuel, surnommé « la cathédrale de l'universalisme ». Il est situé au croisement de West 76th Street et de Central Park West, une voie qui longe l'ouest de Central Park à New York. Il fait face au musée de la New-York Historical Society. Dans les années 1980, la congrégation reçoit des offres de promoteurs immobiliers désireux d'obtenir l'emplacement de choix de l'église. La congrégation se joint à des militants associatifs, des conservateurs du patrimoine et des voisins pour former l'association Save Our Universalist Landmark (SOUL) et réussit à collecter des fonds pour l'entretien du bâtiment. En 2018, la congrégation se lance dans une deuxième campagne SOUL, visant à remplacer un toit vieillissant rapidement. Avec l'aide des voisins, de subventions de l'État et des membres de la congrégation, la campagne réussit à recueillir plus de 1,5 million de dollars. Le clocher de l'église, dédié par la congrégation à la paix et surnommée « The Peace Tower of New York City », est utilisé par NBC chaque novembre comme son centre de commandement technique pour la couverture en direct du défilé de Thanksgiving de Macy.

Activisme et justice

La congrégation est connue pour son engagement en faveur de la justice sociale, notamment à travers son soutien aux réfugiés, la défense du droit de vote, l'écologie, les droits de la communauté LGBT et le mouvement Black Lives Matter. En février 2017, les membres de la congrégation votent à l'unanimité pour devenir un sanctuaire pour protéger les migrants sans papiers de l'expulsion du territoire américain. Plusieurs semaines plus tard, le bâtiment est vandalisé par des croix gammées et des discours de haine, un incident qui attire l'attention des médias nationaux. En mars 2018, la congrégation accueille Aura Hernandez dans le sanctuaire, une mère sans papiers qui avait fui une relation abusive et la violence des gangs au Guatemala. Son cas est couvert par le New York Times, Democracy Now! et The Nation Magazine.

Architecture

L'architecte, William Appleton Potter, s'est inspiré de Magdalen Tower du Magdalen College (Oxford). Son style architectural relève du gothique perpendiculaire anglais. Il a reçu les éloges d'architectes notables, tel que Frank Lloyd Wright, dont la fille s'est mariée à l'église. En 1993, Robert AM Stern décrit l'église comme « l'un des rares bâtiments à rompre avec le classicisme dominant de Central Park West ».

L'église abrite plusieurs œuvres artistiques importantes, dont un autel du designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, un relief en bronze de l'artiste Augustus Saint-Gaudens, une mosaïque de J&R Lamb Studios et des vitraux de Clayton et Bell de Londres. L'orgue est un don de l'industriel Andrew Carnegie et de sa femme, Louise Carnegie, laquelle était membre de l'Église. Conçu et construit à l'origine par la Hutchings-Votey Organ Company de Boston, l'orgue a été reconstruit et révisé par la Ernest M. Skinner Company.

Pasteurs et paroissiens

Au fil des ans, le temple a attiré sur ses bancs des personnalités notables telles que PT Barnum, Horace Greeley, Oscar Hammerstein II, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Lou Gehrig, Barbara Gittings et Winifred Latimer Norman. Liste des pasteurs

1838-1840 : William Whittaker 1840–1843: Isaac D.Williamson 1843-1845 : Moïse Ballou 1846-1847 : Thomas Lake Harris 1848-1880 : Edwin Hubbell Chapin 1881-1902 : Charles Henry Eaton 1902-1919 : Frank Oliver Hall 1919-1925 : Joseph Fort Newton 1927-1929 : Charles Francis Potter 1929-1938 : Frank Oliver Hall 1938-1941 : SE Gérard Priestley 1941-1943: Eleanor G. Collie 1943–1954: Benjamin B. Hersie 1955–1956: Albert F. Ciarcia 1957–1958: Raymond J. Baughan 1959-1967 : Léonard Hélie 1968-1973: Richard A. Kellaway 1973-1974 : Arlin Roy 1974-1984 : Joël Schoelfield 1984-1985: Charles A. Howe 1985–1987: Joyce H.Smith 1987–1989: Robert A. Kaufmann 1989–1999 : Darrell Berger 1999-2001 : Richard Nugent 2001–2014 : Rosemary Bray McNatt 2014-2016 : Susan Milnor 2016-présent: Schuyler Vogel

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(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York » (voir la liste des auteurs).