Church building was originally constructed in 1845 for the South Brooklyn Presbyterian Church.1 St. Matthew's English Lutheran Church was organized in 1858. Its first house of worship was a hall on Atlantic Avenue, after which the congregation met on State Street. In 1879 the congregation purchased the former South Brooklyn Presbyterian Church located at the northeast corner of Clinton and Amity Streets.2 The church was demolished prior to 1898.
- 1Henry Reed Stiles, A History of the City of Brooklyn : Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh, vol. 3, 3 vols. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Pub. by subscription, 1867), 746-747.
- 2Henry R. Stiles, ed., Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn from 1683 to 1884 (New York, N.Y., United States: W.W. Munsell, 1884), 1083.
Year
1845
Address
219 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States