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.
Center for Brooklyn History260 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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