Built in 1862, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church was known for its abolitionist pastor, Theodore L. Cuyler, and its distinguished congregation of prominent Reconstruction-era political figures, including President Benjamin Harrison and British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone.

A local newspaper in 1913 said it was "one of the two or three most beautiful specimens of Church architecture in the United States."

Built between 1857 and 1860, this stately brick and stucco structure has been the home to a Seventh Day Adventist congregation since 1963.

St. Cecilia's Church not only undertook religious duties during the construction of its upper church in 1887, but also acted as general contractor.

This Romanesque Revival church was designed in 1869 by William A. Mundell, a prolific architect who was responsible for the design of Brooklyn landmarks including the Long Island Safe Deposit Building and armories in Williamsburg, Park Slope, and on Clermont Avenue.

This turn-of-the-century Bronx church had a pastor who had served in that role for almost half a century when he passed away in 2013.

The name of this church references the fact that, at one point in history, the south Bronx was nearly as far north in New York City as anyone traveled.

The original Willis Avenue United Methodist Church was a Gothic Revival building. It was built in 1900 by George W. Kramer, an architect who designed churches all over the country and authored a 1897 book called "The What, How, and Why of Church Building."

The original Alexander Avenue Baptist Church was a wooden chapel built in 1876 in this same corner at 141st Street and Alexander Avenue.

St. Jerome's Catholic Church was built in 1899-1900 to the designs of the architectural firm Delhi and Howard. The cost of the building was $100,000, a considerable sum for the turn of the 20th century.

This Bronx church was inspired by the Hagia Sophia and once held the remains of a second century religious martyr.

The Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church was actually founded in 1872 on a ship.

This is the Visitation congregation’s third church, a Gothic Revival building. It was built of dark Manhattan schist in 1896 after a fire destroyed the previous building on this site.

An 1886 map lists the chapel as “being built” at the corner of Sullivan and Richards Streets. The church was active at least as late as 1911, when its annual three-day fundraising fair was held in November.

St. John’s of Far Rockaway was probably erected on the land of Benjamin B. Mott in 1873.

The construction of the early 20th century Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church building included female parishioners cleaning recycled bricks by hand before they were used for the structure.

The First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica is the oldest continuously active Presbyterian church in the United States.

Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel has withstood the sometimes punishing weather that crosses the island. During Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the chapel was surrounded by water but made it through relatively unscathed.

Following the devastation of 2012's Hurricane Sandy, the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension became the logistical base in North Brooklyn for the 'Occupy Sandy' relief efforts.

Though the Belarusian community of East New York has diminished drastically from the mid 20th century, the church has had a resurgence in the last 15 years as a place that welcomes and assists new Russian immigrants with acclimating to a new country with unfamiliar language and laws.

Similar to most churches built in the city before the 1840s, the New Lots Church has an attached cemetery.

This cobblestone church was built in 1902 and today offers services for the local Burmese and Indonesian communities.

Designed in Early English Gothic style by noted church architect Henry Dudley, the Church of the Ascension hosted its first mass in 1866.

St. Raphael’s, a wooden church built in 1867, was established to meet the needs of Calvary Cemetery.

The Mariners Harbor Dutch Reformed Chapel appears on Richmond maps as early as 1907.

The University Heights Presbyterian congregation was established in 1893 to serve the growing community associated with the New York University campus then under construction.

The Rundbogenstil Romanesque Revival Meeting House was completed in 1868, following a design credited to architect Stephen Carpenter Earle

The small brick building that houses the South Baptist Church was built, according to some sources, sometime in the 1860s.

The building which would eventually house the Church of Our Lady of Solace was originally built as the Palm Garden dance hall.

The High Victorian Gothic church was designed by architect Richard Upjohn and completed in 1884, 17 years after construction commenced.

Built in 1851, the steeple survived until at least 1936, when the Eagle reported that the church had decided to keep the “source of pride and worry.”

This building is currently occupied by the First Church of God in Christ, a Pentecostal congregation.

The name is this church is a reference to the waterfront laborers who made up the congregation.

This church building was very well received and won a first place award in 1931 for excellent in design and civic value, given by the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

This small church building opened in 1885 as the mission church of the larger nearby Holy Cross Church.

St. Francis Xavier Church was established in 1847 by Jesuits who came down from Fordham (then in Westchester) to start a Manhattan parish.

The architect of the church, Marion Sims Wyeth of the firm Wyeth & King, is perhaps currently (2017) best known as the architect of Mar-a-Logo. This Florida mansion built by socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post as a winter retreat for presidents was purchased in 1985 by Donald Trump and has been used in 2017 by the 45th president.

The Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel was built to accommodate a growing Catholic population in the 1880s and 1890s.

This Greek Orthodox Church was once a synagogue.

The Methodist Episcopal Church of Newtown was organized in 1768, with its first meeting house erected at Dry Harbor (80th Street) and Juniper Valley Roads the following year.

Though this church building seems unused and is in rough shape, the original weathervane at the top of the 1905 tower still stands.

The Tremont Presbyterian Church began in the spring 1854 as a small group of people worshiping at a house meeting.

The parish of St. Mary was founded by the Missionaries of the Company of Mary (Montfort Fathers) in 1904.

This wood-frame church is locally called the "Old White Church." It is the oldest religious structure in this neighborhood.

In 1946, the congregation burned their mortgage documents after the full payment was made.

The congregation of Saints Joachim and Anne Church was organized in 1896 by German and Irish immigrants.

Originally a German parish, the church was purchased by a coalition of Lithuanian Catholics in 1914. Today, the church provides English, Lithuanian, and Spanish-language services.

Built in 1858, the red brick church is the oldest building in Mariners Harbor. Today, it is the home of the Staten Island Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

In 1929, this Methodist Church was forced to rebuild after structural damage was caused by subway tunneling.

The Church of St. Michael and St. Edward, built between 1891-1906, served a predominantly Irish and working-class congregation of local residents employed at the neighborhood’s factories, waterfront, and, during wartime, the Navy Yard.

The buttresses on this church are not structural as is most common. They are purely decorative, being too shallow to provide support and unneeded as the church is entirely supported by an underlying steel frame.

This congregation dates to 1893. They erected a country-style church with a tower on upper Broadway at what is now 181st Street in 1895.

Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church was created from the merger of two smaller congregations: The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, and the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour.

The parish of St. Mary's dates to the 1850s. It was enlarged two decades later but soon after lost in a devastating fire.

This neo-Romanesque church designed by Joseph Ziccardi was completed in 1925.

This brick neo-Gothic church was constructed in 1906 for the Woodstock Presbyterian Church. That congregation occupied this building until it merged with the Home Street Presbyterian Church in 1938 and moved to their quaint wood-frame 1910 church at 1017 Home Street.

In 1831 this parish became New York's first Episcopal church to abolish pew rentals, a practice of raising funds that often created a hierarchy among the community.

St. Gregory's church is an example of a basilican church inspired by early Christian architecture, and specifically modeled on two 5th century Roman churches.

The Church of God in Christ on the Hill is a Holiness-Pentecostal congregation that purchased a church building at 137 Buffalo Avenue in 1936.

The Sunday school building at the corner of 14th Avenue and 119th Street is referred to in an LPC report as "a rare and well-preserved example of the Eastlake Gothic style in New York City."

The original 1856 church of St. Fidelis was the very first purpose-built religious building in College Point.

This small wood-frame church building was constructed in 1893. Since 2017, it has been occupied by the New York Mission Church, a Korean congregation.

The construction of Zion Episcopal Church was a community effort with Van Zandt, the man who donated the land, and his neighbors.

St. Anastasia Church was founded in 1915, after local residents has spend the hundred years prior traveling great distances to attend mass (to St. Michael's in Flushing or St. Mary’s in Manhasset). The original congregation was only 100 parishioners.

The Romanesque Revival Church of the Pilgrims was designed by prolific ecclesiastical architect and Brooklyn resident Richard Upjohn.

The parish of Holy Cross was established in 1921 and staffed by the order of Franciscan Friars for more than 80 years.

The Plymouth Church is noted as the church of Henry Ward Beecher, the fiery original pastor, and as a major station in the Underground Railroad.

Our Lady of Lebanon was incorporated in February, 1903, in the townhouse at No. 295 Hicks Street. As the parish grew, the converted brownstone could no longer accommodate worshippers and a new church was built on the adjacent lot.

Our Saviour’s Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church was originally located in Red Hook, but in 1957, the congregation moved to Brooklyn Heights.

St. James is the oldest surviving Anglican building in New York City and the oldest structure in Elmhurst.

Christ Church and Holy Family Episcopal Church was designed by famed church architect Richard Upjohn in 1842.

Church of Saint Edward the Martyr was designed by architect George A. Bagge and completed in 1887.

Church of the Holy Apostles was established in 1844 as an outreach mission by the downtown Trinity Church to serve immigrants who worked on the Hudson River waterfront.