Special The Jan Hus Church in New York – a remnant of the Upper East Side’s Czech past
The Jan Hus Presbyterian Church and Neighborhood House is to be found on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It takes its name from the great Czech religious reformer Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in 1415 and influenced the later Protestant movement. When the church was established in the 1870s, it was one of the hubs of a large Czech community that in those days totalled thirty or forty thousand people.
Reverend Vincent Pisek (in the middle)
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