The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, founded as St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, is a historic Episcopal

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 congregation in New York City

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, New York

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. It is located at 520 Clinton Avenue, between Fulton Street

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 and Atlantic Avenue in the Clinton Hill

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-Fort Greene

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 area of Brooklyn

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.

St. Luke's was founded in 1841 following the failure of Trinity Church. The congregation eventually grew to be the largest in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

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. It absorbed St. Matthew’s Church in 1943, and the Church of St. Michael and St. Mark in 1993.

The church was built in 1888 in the Romanesque Revival style

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. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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in 1982.