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 St. Mark’s is a church with a history as long and meandering as the history of European settlement in Manhattan. It is the oldest site of continuous worship in New York City and the burial site of Peter Stuyvesant and other founding families of New York. Today we are a progressive Episcopal Church, a center for modern dance, experimental theater and poetry, and a community gathering space for the East Village. The Church is a New York City landmark and on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Building of the Church began in 1795, a fieldstone Georgian style church built by the architect and mason John McComb Jr. The steeple was added in 1828; expansion and renovation continued throughout the next two centuries. In 1978, a fire nearly destroyed the Church; restoration was completed in 1986.
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