Plaque of Vincent Picek at the Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
Avenue Church NYC, formerly known as Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, is a Christian congregation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, associated with the Presbyterian Church USA.[2] It is the oldest historically Czech Presbyterian congregation in the US, having been founded in 1877, and the church building was opened in 1888.[3]
The church was originally named for Jan Hus, a Bohemian priest who was a theologian and reformer.[4] The church is in the area that was once known as Little Bohemia. Once a center of the Czech community, the church now has a diversified inclusionist congregation.
The church ran an active Neighborhood House that promoted music, theater, and culture and operated a homeless outreach program. The church basement includes a 150-seat theatre that was home to Gilbert and Sullivan performing groups almost continuously from 1952 to 1975. Chicago City Limits performed there throughout the 1980s. Since then, several arts organizations have been based at the theatre.
In 2019, the Session of Jan Hus Presbyterian sold the 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) church building located at 351 East 74th Street, New York City, New York, in Manhattan's Upper East Side to purchase a more modern facility to meet the growing needs of the congregation and their large community outreach missions.[5] Their new property, located at 1745 First Avenue, New York City, New York, is scheduled to open in early 2020.[6][7]
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