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A grand Gothic revival
There’s something special about St. Peter’s. The Rev. Paul Hartt felt it the very first time he walked into the building. “There’s this sense that the very walls are saturated with prayer,” said Hart, who took over as rector at St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church at 107 State St. in Albany seven years ago. “There’s a real holiness as you walk into the place that is palpable. It makes you quiet. You get that transcendent feeling that a good church should create.” Posted on February 26, 2012.
This is the main sanctuary at St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church on State Street in Albany.
BELOW: St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church on State Street in Albany began being built in 1857. It is the third church building in the parish’s 300-year history. The tower was added in 1876.
This is the main sanctuary at St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church on State Street in Albany.
The main alter at St. Peter’s reflects the Gothic revival style that became popular during the middle of the 18th century.
The stained-glass windows at St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church in Albany were designed and manufactured in England by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and installed in the 1870s and 1880s.
The simple choir room, seen from the nave of St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church is in great contrast to the magnificent church interior.
The corporate arms of St. Peter’s Church was painted into the mosaic flooring in the nave of the church soon after the turn of the 20th century.
St. Peter's Church near the intersection of State and Barrack Street, by James Eights (1798-1882). This image is part of ‘St. Peter’s Church in Albany,’ opening at the Albany Institute of History and Art next month.
