St Marks Church-In-The-Bowery is an Episcopal Church that serves all faiths and communities in Manhattan’s East Village.
St Marks also functions as a community cultural center known for Danspace, the Poetry Project and New York Theatre Ballet. Mexican cultural organization Mano a Mano regularly hosts a community ofrenda (altar) for Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos).
Mano a Mano’s 20th Day of the Dead Celebration Brings Mexican Culture to Life at St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
ST MARK’S CHURCH-IN-THE-BOWERY, East Village ~ One of New York City’s longest running community ofrendas, with live music, Mexican food, and a Mexican folk art market.
Friday-Sunday, October 27-29, 2023
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St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th St
(at Second Ave)
East Village, Manhattan
Subways
(6) to Astor Place
(L) to First Ave
(R)(W) to 8th St
PEN World Voices Festival 2019
May 6-14 & 19, 2019 | International literary festival | The world’s writers and thinkers gather in New York City to talk and read and perform
Mano a Mano Day of the Dead celebration 2017
St. Mark’s Church
131 East 10th St
at Second Ave
East Village, Manhattan
Friday – Sunday
October 27 – 29, 2017
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La Serenissima
A celebration of music and arts from the Venetian Republic at Carnegie Hall and other venues February 3-21, 2017
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery was the Stuyvesant Family Chapel
Peter Stuyvesant (1610 – 1672) was the last Dutch Director General of the colony of New Netherland before it became English New York in 1664. He is a famous figure of early New York. He was sent to clean up the operation which was then a company town.
The area was the Stuyvesant farm. Stuyvesant St is the only diagonal street in the Lower Manhattan grid. It was the entrance to the farm. The Bowery was the second main road after Broadway which was the old “Indian” trail. The Indian trail followed the Hudson River upstate. The Bowery road led up the coast to Connecticut and Boston.
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery was built on the site of the family’s chapel where Peter is buried. It was finished in 1799 and became Manhattan’s second Episcopal church after Trinity Church downtown.
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery is a Georgian style church.
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery has a long history of the arts
Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham danced here in the 1920s and 1930s. The St. Mark’s Sunday Symposium hosted a number of great poets and thinkers.
Today St. Mark’s Church hosts the Poetry Project and Danspace Project, and and New York Theatre Ballet.