St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, is located in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

When the hospital laid the cornerstone to the High Street address on June 11, 1869 (Saint Barnabas Day), the rector Rev.

McMurdy, John Suydam a Warden of Saint Barnabas Church, and Dr. Sanford B.

During the Great Depression (1930's), Saint Barnabas Church boasted over five hundred Parishioners and supported two priests and two organists.

They shared an interest in social causes, like racial equality, women's rights and the welfare of migrant workers.

They supported a black dance group in Brooklyn, subsidized James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie at the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) Theater, and flew to Moscow in 1965 in a citizens exchange project to thaw the Cold War.

In the 1970s the Basement of the Parish Hall was utilized for a coffee house Called "The Edge" that brought in many of the neighborhood youth.

North Porch Women & Infants Center began its existence at Saint Barnabas also in the 1970s and has been moved to Park Place.

The basement of the Parish Hall currently houses the Jamar Carter Operation Turnaround boxing gym.

The congregation was evicted by a controversial and contentious action of the diocese of Newark on November 11, 2012. see http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2012/12/with_membership_dwindling_epis.html Forrest Drennen Director of Music and Worship Saint Barnabas Church