Trinity Chapel Complex
- Architect
- Richard Upjohn
- Year
- 1855
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Trinity Chapel Complex, now Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, is a historic church at 15 West 25th Street in the NoMad neighborhood. Built in 1850-55 to designs by architect Richard Upjohn in English Gothic Revival style, it began as one of several uptown chapels of the Trinity Church parish before being sold to the Serbian Orthodox parish in 1942.
the building
The Parish House. The complex includes the former Trinity Chapel School, now the Parish House, built in 1860 and designed by Jacob Wrey Mould in a polychromatic Victorian Gothic style — Mould's only surviving building in New York City.
Clergy House. Attached to the sanctuary is the Clergy House at 26 West 26th Street, part of the original chapel complex serving the parish.
the style
Richard Upjohn designed the church in English Gothic Revival style, the idiom he was best known for in ecclesiastical work of the period.
More on Gothic Revivalthe architect
Richard Upjohn designed the original chapel; Jacob Wrey Mould separately designed the attached school building, now the Parish House — the only structure by Mould still standing in New York City.
significance
The complex was sold by Trinity Church parish to a Serbian Orthodox congregation in 1942 and reopened in 1944 as Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church. It is a New York City Individual Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- 261 Fifth Avenue
- Gilsey House
- Flatiron Building
- Marble Collegiate Church
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
- Hotel Seville (now The James NoMad Hotel)