Tag: religious
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Sacred Sites Open House (May 19)
Medieval to Modern: Celebrating New York’s Religious Art and Architecture This year’s Sacred Sites Open House takes place on the weekend of May 19 with the theme, Medieval to Modern: Celebrating New York’s Religious Art and Architecture, highlighting the broad spectrum of historical periods, faith traditions, and styles of religious architecture found in communities throughout…
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History Revisited at Flushing Meeting
NYC Channel 5 broadcast a news report on the fantastic history of Flushing Meeting: The year is 1694, five years after the British passed the Toleration Act allowing some, but not all, religions that dissented from the Church of England to practice out in the open. That freedom was extended to include a small English…
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Exploring the Mystery of Flushing
We had the opportunity to walk the streets of Flushing with Garnette Cadogan and Professor R. Scott Hanson this summer to explore “God’s Row-Bowne Street,” part of the “Nonstop Metropolis” exhibit at the Queens Museum. Prof. Hanson is the author of City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens recently published by…