# Next Step Community Church

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**Next Step Community Church** is a historic [non-denominational](/source/Nondenominational_Christianity) [evangelical](/source/Evangelicalism) [Christian](/source/Christianity) [church](/source/Church_(building)) at 360 Schermerhorn Street and [Third Avenue](/source/Third_Avenue_(Brooklyn)) in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)). It was built in 1893–1894 in the [Romanesque Revival](/source/Romanesque_Revival_architecture) style and rebuilt after a fire in 1917–1918. It has a [brownstone](/source/Brownstone) base and superstructure faced with subtly textured brick with brownstone trim. The building features a large [rose window](/source/Rose_window) and three corner towers.[2] [Edward Morris Bowman](/source/Edward_Morris_Bowman) was the church's first organist and choirmaster. He led a large chorus and orchestra at the church from 1894-1906 that gained a national reputation.[3]

It is a work of architects [Weary & Kramer](/source/Weary_%26_Kramer), and it is a work of [Dodge & Morrison](/source/Dodge_%26_Morrison).[1]

It was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1995 under the name **Baptist Temple**.[1] The historic pipe organ was undergoing a multi-year restoration at the time.[4] It was seriously damaged in a three-alarm fire that broke out on July 7, 2010.[5]

In 2022, it became [nondenominational](/source/Nondenominational_Christianity) and was renamed Next Step Community Church. [6]

## References

1. Peter D. Shaver (September 1995). [*National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Baptist Temple*](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318315) (none). National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 1, 2025. ()

1. Benjamin, William Howard (1908). ["Edward Morris Bowman"](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Biographies_of_Celebrated_Organists_of_A/5GtHAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Edward+Morris+Bowman%22&pg=PA24&printsec=frontcover). *Biographies of Celebrated Organists of America*. Benjamin Publishing Company.

1. [Pipe organ restoration by Daphne Sashin, *New York Times*](http://www.daphnesashin.com/18/a-man-and-a-pipe-organ/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110708231442/http://www.daphnesashin.com/18/a-man-and-a-pipe-organ/) July 8, 2011 at the Wayback Machine

1. [NYC American Guild of Organists website](http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/html/BaptistTemple.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110727134454/http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/html/BaptistTemple.html) July 27, 2011 at the Wayback Machine

1. Megan McGibney, [Downtown Brooklyn Church Relaunches Parents’ Ministry, as Cost of Living Escalates](https://www.bkreader.com/featured-news/downtown-brooklyn-parents-ministry-7509138), bkreader.com, USA, Sep 6, 2023

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