South Reformed Dutch Church in Garden Street, Built 1807

The second temple of the old South Church in Garden Street built in 1807. Engraving from A Discourse Delivered in the North Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New-York, on the Last Sabbath in August, 1856, by Thomas DeWitt, published in 1857.

The Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam (now New York) was originally established in 1628, during the Dutch rule.

The Dutch Reformed Church moved from the temple inside the fort to a new temple built in 1693 in Garden Street (now Exchange Place). The society was then known as the Garden Street Church. In 1696, the Church was incorporated under a charter granted by King William III of England as Collegiate Church.

The old Garden Street Church was taken down in 1807 and this second temple (on the right) was erected on the same site. The old bell, cast in 1674, was rehung in the new building.

In 1812, the South Church was separated from the Collegiate Church. The second temple was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1835 and the congregation moved to a new temple on Murray Street. About 1849, they moved again to a Gothic revival temple on Fifth Avenue and 21st Street.