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the worship of God, known in Jesus, the Christ, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit .

In 1922, the congregation of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with the major financial support of John D.Rockefeller, Jr., a member of the church, and its modernist Baptist pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, decided to create a large, cathedral-like church dedicated to these values in New York City.This church was to be built around three main principles advocated by Rockefeller and Fosdick: a church in an interdenominational setting, a large church in a neighborhood important to the city, and a church open to all who profess faith in Christ.

donated in memory of his mother, Laura Spelman Rockefeller.

The Grand Chorus division was added two years later (1980), and a complete new principal chorus was installed in the chancel Pedal.

For the massive single bell tower that dwarfs the rest of the church, they modeled one of the towers at Laon, but here with a base 100 feet square, and built on a steel frame the equivalent of a 22-story building (392 feet) New York Architecture Images - Riverside Church.

Its final complement of 74 bronze bells (at the time the largest carillon of bells in the world—see also Kirk in the Hills) includes the 20-ton bourdon, the largest tuned bell in the world.The church was conceived as a complex social services center from the outset, with meeting rooms and classrooms, a daycare center, a kindergarten, library, auditorium and gym.The original chancel and gallery organs for the Riverside Church were built by Hook and Hastings of Boston when the church was opened in 1930.

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