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The Lutheran church on Lexington Avenue in Passaic
140 Lexington Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey
JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The congregation put this building up between 1896 and 1897, in the years Passaic was filling with mill families and turning into a national centre of woolen manufacturing. It joined the National Register in 1982, cited not only for its architecture but for what the parish did in education and religion in a city of immigrant workers. It is still an active Lutheran congregation.
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