Trinity Chapel

Architect: Richard Upjohn
Style: Gothic Revival
City: Queens, NY

Trinity Chapel is a wood-frame Gothic Revival church built in 1858 at 1874 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, designed by Richard Upjohn. It began as a mission of Trinity Church in Hewlett, became the independent parish of St. John's in 1881, merged back with Trinity Church in 1974, and was sold the following year to Beth-El Temple Church of God in Christ, which still occupies it.

the building

A modest frame chapel. Rather than masonry, the chapel is built of wood on a brick foundation, three bays wide by five bays long, with a steeply pitched roof sided in wood shingles and topped by a wooden belfry with its own steep pyramidal roof.

the style

Upjohn designed the chapel in the Gothic Revival style he helped popularize for American churches, applying its pointed forms and steep roofline to a small wood-frame mission building rather than a grand stone landmark.

the architect

Richard Upjohn (1802-1878) designed Trinity Chapel in 1858, one of many church commissions across a career devoted largely to Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture.

significance

The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, after passing through three names and two congregations over more than a century of use.

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