Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
Posted on 07/30/2025 7:20:24 PM PDT by xxqqzz
The effort to save St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jersey City has lasted more than three decades. After the Newark Episcopal Diocese closed the struggling house of worship in 1994, two generations of preservationists have fought to wrest the church from the specter of demolition and collapse — with some of the fiercest proponents of saving this landmark passing away without much reassurance that it would be restored.
Certainly one of the most important milestones in this effort came earlier this month when a plan to restore the church — and build a multi-story apartment building beside it — won unanimous approval from the city’s Zoning Board.
The plan to save it is impressive considering the state of disrepair the church is in — it is barely holding on despite lacking a roof and concerns about the structural stability.
St Johns Episcopal 130 Summit Ave Jersey City Exterior St. John’s Episcopal Church, 130 Summit Avenue, Jersey City. Photo via the application and Inglese Architecture + Engineering.
“Luckily these old buildings are so well built — even without the roof, the stone wall and iron beams have been holding it up,” said John Gomez, founder of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.
Gomez once called St. John’s a “structural spectacle” in a three-part series he wrote in 2020 about the church for the Jersey Journal. The story was timely given that a developer, Ben LoPiccolo, had gained control that year of the property through the purchase and sale contract and was working on a plan to restore the church, just as Gomez’s newly founded organization began advocating for it.
“He always said to me that it’s going to happen to me and we just had to be patient,” Gomez said.
(Excerpt) Read more at jerseydigs.com ...
The NJ Diocese had been headed by the arch-heretic “bishop” John Shelby Spong.
This is his legacy.
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
If they restore it. it will be mostly a replica.
It’s a ruin.
Spong.....
Oh Boy There’s a Blast from the Past.
Will it be a church again, or be turned into condos?
Or a microbrewery & pub?
In my experience, rebuilt and secularized churches become condos!
Brew-pubs are nearby, however!
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