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Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
260 Quincy Street

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260 Quincy Street, 1911. Built by a trio of English-born architect brothers, the Parfitt Brothers, the Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church was completed in 1881. The parish had been founded here on the corner of Quincy and Nostrand Avenue in 1870. The church building is ostensibly Gothic Revival but also features details of the Shingle and Stick and English Arts and Crafts styles. The architects took advance of the corner plot to play mirrors facades that meet at the corner, rendered in brick, wood trim, terra-cotta, and glass. The current congregation is the John Wesley M.E. Church, a community founded in 1916 of mostly Caribbean parishioners. The parish moved to this location in 1947 from a former Greek Orthodox church on Pacific Street, as much of congregation already lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

Nostrand Ave. M. E. Church Facade (partially vine-covered) of Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Nostrand Avenue and Quincy Street, with iron fence (and gate) along front and side, telephone pole and lines, street lamp and signs in center foreground, street lamp in right foreground, fire hydrant in left foreground, residential buildings on both sides and snow-covered intersecting streets.
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Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

Nostrand Ave. M. E. Church Facade of Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Nostrand Avenue and Quincy Street, with iron fence (and gate) along front and side, telephone pole and lines, street lamp and signs in center foreground (pedestrian leaning against pole), street lamp in right foreground, residential buildings on both sides, and snow-covered intersecting streets.
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Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

Nostrand Ave. M.E. Church View of church at Nostrand Avenue and Quincy Street (formerly Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, now John Wesley United Methodist Church), with entrance at corner between two gables, and ivy covering much of facade; empty street in foreground; adjacent buildings at right and left.
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Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Interior, Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Nostrand Avenue and Quincy Street. Altar with two flower-filled vases and cross; chair on each side; table in front of altar with flower-filled vase and, on each side, stack of four plates; cloth-covered lectern holding open book on right; pulpit on left; hymn board on far left; organ and pipes in upper left.
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