e/Madison Avenue Baptist Church

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has gloss	eng: Madison Avenue Baptist Church was first chartered in 1848 as Rose Hill Baptist Sunday School/Church, on 30th Street between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Rose Hill was a house church with twelve members. In 1849, Rose Hill Baptist became Lexington Avenue Baptist Church with twenty-eight members at 154 Lexington Avenue and 30th Street in a new Lombardian Romanesque-style edifice, which is now the First Moravian Church. In 1860-62, prominent baptist Jeremiah Milbank (developer of condensed milk with inventor Gail Borden) and other congregational leaders (including the Colgate family) decided to move the church east of Fourth Avenue in order to avoid the falling cinders emitted by the nearby Third Avenue elevated railroad. Five lots at 31st Street and Madison Avenue became the site of a grand new structure. In 1885, following the death of Jeremiah Milbank, his wife Elizabeth Lake Milbank donated a memorial of stained glass windows depicting the life, healing ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus by F. X. Zettler of Germany (sculptor of Infalbert's Angel of the Gospel statue), which were installed behind the pulpit.
lexicalization	eng: Madison Avenue Baptist Church
instance of	c/Baptist churches in New York