First Baptist Church in the City of New York

[1] Early attempts to form a Baptist church in Flushing, Queens were organized by William Wickenden and others in the 1650s.

[2] In 1745, Jeremiah Dodge settled in New York City, and began holding prayer meetings in his home.

Gano served as pastor until 1776 when he became Chaplain in General Washington's American Army.

[3] From 1801–02, the First Baptist Church built a new stone structure at its site on Gold Street.

[3] During the period they were located there, the congregation's "inhospitality" to African-Americans provoked the founding of the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

The sanctuary at Broadway and 79th Street, with asymmetrical towers
Rev. John Gano , George Washington's chaplain and captain in the Continental Army
Inside the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church