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Broadway Tabernacle Church
Founded in Lower Manhattan in 1831, the Broadway Tabernacle Church, now called Broadway United Church of Christ, moved to this site at 34th Street and Broadway in 1859, just east of some of the city's roughest taverns.
The Tabernacle's first building, located at Broadway and Worth Street, held 2,400 people, making it the [sic] one of the city's largest public halls. In hosted sermons, raffles, and lectures, on a wide range of subjects. |