Talk:Riverside Church

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The transept towers at Laon: do they look like the real design source for Riverside church's massive single tower? --Wetman 28 June 2005 09:45 (UTC) infobox

Major Error
The photograph accompanying the article is of a building at nearby Union Theological Seminary and not of Riverside Church. The two institutions are across the street from one another so I suppose a visitor could make this type of mistake, but the Church's tower is many times larger than the one in the photo and is of a significantly different style. Two photos of the actual tower may be found at http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/content.asp?id=208, though they are too small to be used for the article. There are other images at http://www.nyc-architecture.com/HAR/HAR009.htm, but most are rather old and predate a large addition on the church's southern end. Hopefully another user will find a photo which is both large enough and recent enough to use. (anon. user)


 * Good call! --Wetman 02:01, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


 * "...a center for the promotion of leftist and progressive causes..." I always wonder what the writer of such a phrase meant by "leftist" in addition to "progressive"— if anything much at all. Perhaps just a general sneer: not worthy of the better Wikipedia. Some closer analysis of Riverside Church's social programs over the years, touched on in the present article, would provide the reader more meat. --Wetman 12:19, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It is situated in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. It just is. Period. Please don't "correct" the neighborhood to fit your imagination. --Wetman 02:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Famous Speakers
How about a famous speakers section? Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and Arundhati Roy are some notable figures whom have been here. 161.185.151.150 (talk) 19:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer definitely visited Riverside, but he didn't like it. I can't find any documentation that he ever spoke there. I'm not sure that's correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lincolnmain (talk • contribs) 18:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

I agree: there is no evidence Bonhoeffer ever spoke here, though it is clear he nearly despised the place. He quotes without disapproval someone who called Fosdick the Antichrist (American Diary, June 20, 1939. DBWE 15:227). On June 18 he had written, "Worship at Riverside Church. Simply unbearable....Perhaps the Anglo-Saxons really are more religious than we, but they may not be more Christian, if they tolerate such sermons" (DBWE 15:224). -- Michael Hayes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mthayes (talk • contribs) 21:19, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Construction Dates
The Architecture section says both that "the church was begun in 1927" and that the carillon atop the tower "was installed from 1925 with additional bells later." At least one of these dates must be incorrect, but I don't know which. Hopefully someone who does will make the appropriate correction[s]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.144.201.12 (talk) 21:13, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

WRVR
How can this article not have a single mention of WRVR? 121a0012 (talk) 00:15, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

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Name is incorrect
Hello, I'm hoping to add more to this article soon, especially about the former public radio station, WRVR, but I wanted to point out that the official name of the church is "The Riverside Church in the City of New York". The "in the City of New York" is almost always dropped, but the "The" is pretty uniformly used in the church's publications, etc. Vint (talk) 16:40, 9 July 2021 (UTC)