Portrait Window of Servetus at the First Unitarian Church
of Brooklyn
1929 Portrait window of Servetus at the First Unitarian Church
of Brooklyn, New York.
John Howland Lathrop (1880-1967), distinguished Unitarian
minister, social activist and peace advocate, dedicated his
life to serve the Brooklyn congregation keeping it on the
cutting edge of social change. In 1928 he completed a Side
Aisle Chapel of All Faiths, inspired by and looking to all
the world's religions, hailed as the nation's first. In 1929
he began a project to portray the history of liberal religion
in a series of twenty clerestory portrait windows in his church's
sanctuary, including Michael Servetus, Jan Hus, Joseph Priestley,
William Ellery Channing, and Emerson. Interrupted by the Great
Depression, the windows were not completed until 1957. (First
Unitarian Church, 48 Monroe Place, Tel. 718-624-5466).
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