page_title: Riverside Church
section_title: Called senior ministers
hierarchical_section_title: Riverside Church / Called senior ministers
caption_attribution_description: Harry Emerson Fosdick
context_page_description: Riverside Church is a Baptist and Congregationalist church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on the block bounded by Riverside Drive, Claremont Avenue, 120th Street and 122nd Street near Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus and across from Grant's Tomb. It is an interdenominational church that is associated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ. The church was conceived by philanthropist businessman and Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. in conjunction with Presbyterian minister Harry Emerson Fosdick as a large, interdenominational church in Morningside Heights, which is surrounded by academic institutions.
  The original building opened in 1930; it was designed by Henry C. Pelton and Allen & Collens in the Neo-Gothic style. It contains a nave consisting of five architectural bays; a chancel at the front of the nave; a 22-story, 392-foot tower above the nave; a narthex and chapel; and a cloistered passageway that connects to the eastern entrance on Claremont Avenue.
context_section_description: In chronological order, the called senior ministers at Riverside Church have been:
  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1925–1945)
  Robert J. McCracken (1946–1967)
  Ernest T. Campbell (1968–1976)
  William Sloane Coffin (1977–1987)
  James A. Forbes (1989–2007)
  Brad R. Braxton (2008–2009)
  Amy Butler (2014–2019)
caption: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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