HCCC Libraries: Religions of the West: Local Places to Visit

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Just a few suggestions for site visits in our local area.

Sites to Visit

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Location: New York, NY
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John: The Great Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Location: New York, NY
The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States and a prominent landmark of New York City.
The Riverside Church
Location: New York, NY
The Riverside Church in the City of New York is an inter-denominational, but member of American Baptist and United Church of Christ church in New York City's northwestern Manhattan neighborhood of Morningside Heights, famous for its large size and elaborate Neo-Gothic architecture and its history of social justice.
Trinity Church / St. Paul's Chapel
Location: New York, NY
Trinity Church at 79 Broadway, Lower Manhattan, is a historic, active, well-endowed parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. It is also the home of St. Paul's Chapel, the "little chapel that stood" after September 11, which now serves as a congregation for peace and reconciliation.
Islamic Cultural Center of New York
Location: New York, NY
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York is a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Central Synagogue
Location: New York, NY
Central Synagogue is a thriving Reform congregation in Midtown Manhattan, serving more than 2,400 families and the larger community.
Temple Emanu-El
Location: New York, NY
Temple Emanu-El of New York was the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City and, because of its size and prominence, has served as a flagship congregation in the Reform branch of Judaism since its founding in 1845.
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Location: New York, NY
The Eldridge Street Synagogue, built in 1887, is National Historic Landmark synagogue in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood.
Temple Beth-El
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Temple Beth-El is the Reform Jewish congregation of Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York City.
Temple Beth Am
Location: Bayonne, NJ
Temple Beth Am is Bayonne's Reform congregation, affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism.
Congregation B'nai Jacob
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Congregation B'nai Jacob is a contemporary egalitarian congregation in the Conservative tradition dedicated to developing, supporting, and sustaining contemporary Judaism, Jewish living, and the diverse Jewish community for 50 years.
United Synagogue of Hoboken
Location: Hoboken, NJ
The United Synagogue of Hoboken is a Conservative synagogue located in the heart of the gentrified part of Hoboken.
The Jewish Museum
Location: New York, NY
The Jewish Museum of New York, an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, is the leading Jewish museum in the United States.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Location: New York, NY
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in lower Manhattan, is a living memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust.
Hebrew Union College
Location: New York, NY
New York is the home of the Jewish Institute of Religion, founded in 1922 by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise as a center for higher study for scholars and students of all streams of Judaism.
National Museum of the American Indian
Location: New York, NY
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, is located within the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions—as well as a range of public programs, including music and dance performances, films, and symposia—explore the diversity of the Native people of the Americas.
American Indian Community House
Location: New York, NY
The mission of the American Indian Community House is to improve and promote the well-being of the American Indian community and to increase the visibility of American Indian cultures in an urban setting in order to cultivate awareness, understanding and respect.
Hispanic Society of America
Location: New York, NY
The Hispanic Society of America is a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
The Brooklyn Museum
Location: Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location: New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the ten largest in the world, with the most significant art collections.
The Newark Museum
The Newark Museum’s Asian and Tibetan Gallery is world-class. For this course, visit their Antiquities Galleries, with beautiful examples of jewelry from ancient Egypt, and their Native American Gallery, as well as their great collection of Afro-Caribbean art.

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