Interesting Religious Sites

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.