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The Church of St. Luke in the Fields is an Episcopal church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, located at 487 Hudson Street. The church is affiliated with the St. Luke's School, an elementary school located on the same block. Both are located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969.〔 == History == The church was founded in 1820 on farmland〔, p.142〕 donated by Trinity Church, to accommodate the expansion of New York City northward into Greenwich Village.〔, p.52〕 The original church building was reminiscent of an English village church, with a square tower at one end, but made of brick and built in the Federal style.〔〔 It was part of a complex laid out by Clement Clarke Moore – who would serve as the church's first pastor〔Gerardi, Donald F.M. "Church of St. Luke-in-the-Fields" in , p.223〕 – which included adjoining stone row houses,〔 which the church rented out.〔, pp.447-448〕 Greenwich Village at the time was a sanctuary for people fleeing the endemic diseases of the city proper, and the name of the new parish – St. Luke in the Fields – was chosen to evoke the pastoral quality of the area.〔 When the surrounding neighborhood become predominantly poor and largely composed of immigrants in the late 1880s, the congregation moved north to West 141st Street, and St. Luke's became a chapel of Trinity Church, only regaining its independendence in 1976 under rector Ledlie Laughlin.〔〔 Other prominent rectors in the past have included John Murray Forbes, who helped to bring the Oxford Movement to the United States〔 and Edward Schlueter, who served from 1911 until the 1940s, and developed programs which served the community, such as children's summer camps. Schlueter also had the church sanctuary redesigned in high Medieval style.〔 The church building was damaged by fire twice, in 1886 and on March 6, 1981. After the latter fire, which gutted the building,〔 it was reconstructed by Hugh Hardy of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, who restored much of its original Federal style touches.〔 The reconstruction was completed in 1985.〔〔Dunlap, David W. ''(From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship )''. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 223.〕 In 2000, the church received a Village Award from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/events/awards.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church of St. Luke in the Fields」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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