Architecture

Cathedral of the Incarnation (Garden City, New York)

The Cathedral of the Incarnation is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. The cathedral also serves as the centerpiece of America's first cathedral town, Garden City, New York. It was built to honor 19th-century merchant Alexander Turney Stewart, who championed the development of this Long Island community. Stewart envisioned transforming an area of the Hempstead Plains into a town featuring moderately priced housing for his employees set within a park-like atmosphere. The Cathedral of the Incarnation is the only single-benefactory cathedral in the United States, and the only one that is built in memory of a single individual. The building is significant example of 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture. The cathedral reported 1,277 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income for the congregation in 2024 was $507,364 with average Sunday attendance (ASA) of 237.

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• ▸Edmund Wright (architect)
• ▸Amy Hughes (artist)
• ▸Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Blaj

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