{"nrhp_refnum":"82001205","name":"Trinity Chapel Complex","other_names":["Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava Complex"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 W. 25th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.743577179000056,"lon":-73.98974898299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic Revival church complex at 15 West 25th Street in the Madison Square area of Manhattan, consisting of the former Trinity Chapel (designed 1850-51, built 1851-1856), a clergy house, and a school building designed in 1860. It now serves as the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava.","why_significant":"The church is one of Richard Upjohn's major ecclesiological Gothic Revival works, notable for its dramatic Caen stone interior with a hammerbeam roof. The neighboring school by Jacob Wrey Mould is an early American example of High Victorian Gothic. Together the buildings show the two major stylistic variants of 19th-century Gothic Revival.","narrative":"Tucked among loft and factory buildings near Madison Square, this church complex recalls the era when the area was an elegant uptown residential district. Trinity Parish commissioned Richard Upjohn to design a chapel here in 1850. Its brownstone exterior is restrained, but the narrow, very tall interior is faced in Caen stone and topped by a carved hammerbeam roof, with blind arcades suggesting side aisles and an apsidal chancel. A small clergy house stands behind the church. To the east is a school designed in 1860 by Jacob Wrey Mould, with contrasting dark and light stone, encaustic tile, a slate roof and carved biblical texts, showing English High Victorian influence. The chapel lost its congregation as the neighborhood turned commercial and closed in 1943. The Serbian Orthodox Church bought the buildings, and in 1944 they became the first Serbian Orthodox cathedral in the United States, maintained with great respect.","period_of_significance":"1850-55/1860-61","architect_builder":"Richard Upjohn/Jacob Wrey Mould","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (ecclesiological Early English Gothic church; High Victorian Gothic school)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, in good condition; used as the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava since 1944, with the school serving as a parish hall.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.376912-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001205.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001205/dea5d38210-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001205/dea5d38210-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Boarder143","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Sava_May_3_2016.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boarder143</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Sava_May_3_2016.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319996","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Chapel_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7842633"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/trinity-chapel-complex-82001205/"}