A Journey through NYC religions

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[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Joseph Samuel Frey. From: A Hebrew, Latin, and English Dictionary. containing all the Hebrew and Chaldee words used in the Old Testament, including the proper names, arranged under one alphabet, the derivatives referred to their respective roots, and the signification, in Latin and English, according to the best authorities, with…

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Block party celebrating Juneteenth in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Photo: A Journey through NYC religions On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. Granger commanded the Headquarters District of…

Block party celebrating Juneteenth in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Photo: A Journey through NYC religions On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. Granger commanded the Headquarters District of…

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Among the many innovations to change the city for the better, none was more exciting and more curiously related to religion than the roller coaster. On this day June 16 in 1884, Lemarcus Adna Thompson opened the first roller coaster built in America. There were some other ideas for a roller coaster that were never built and a mining train that served as an adventuresome up and down ride in the…

Among the many innovations to change the city for the better, none was more exciting and more curiously related to religion than the roller coaster. On this day June 16 in 1884, Lemarcus Adna Thompson opened the first roller coaster built in America. There were some other ideas for a roller coaster that were never built and a mining train that served as an adventuresome up and down ride in the…

On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum sank in the East River while carrying the whole congregation of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church from the Lower East Side to a church picnic on Long Island. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,331 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area’s worst disaster in terms of loss of life until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The New York…

On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum sank in the East River while carrying the whole congregation of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church from the Lower East Side to a church picnic on Long Island. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,331 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area’s worst disaster in terms of loss of life until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The New York…

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