1901 drawing of the Pilgrim Swedish Congregational Church - Brooklyn, NY
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Pilgrim Swedish Evangelical Congregational Church

415 Atlantic Avenue near Bond Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217



The Svenska Evangeliska Pilgrimskyrkan (Pilgrim Swedish Evangelical Congregational Church) was organized in 1884, by the Home Missionary Society of the Congregational Church. At the beginning, services in the Swedish language were held in the basement of a house, but the society grew rapidly and was soon self-sufficient. Property was acquired on Atlantic Avenue, near Bond Street, and in 1903 a church was built to accomodate its almost 500 members. By the 1900s, the society was mainly comprised of American-born Swedes, and English services were introduced. It is not known when this congregation disbanded or merged into another church.

In 1946, this building housed the Holy Family Protestant Episcopal Church. That congregation later merged into Christ Church and was known as Christ Church & the Holy Family.

Today, the building houses The House of the Lord Pentecostal Church.
             

J.H. & C.S. Odell
New York City – Opus 514 (1917)
Tubular-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 14 stops, 13 ranks


The following specification was recorded by Charles Sharpeger in an "organ notebook" entry dated July 11, 1946. Sharpeger's typed specification includes a handwritten note that this was formerly Holy Family Episcopal Church. Manual and pedal compasses were not indicated, but they are suggested below, based on similar Odell organs of that time. Another source shows (probably erroneously) that this organ was moved in 1924 to the Presbyterian Church, Palisades, N.J.
               
Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes
8
  Open Diapason
61
8
  Dulciana
61
8
  Gamba
61
4
  Octave
61
8
  Melodia
61
   
               
Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
16
  Bourdon
61
8
  Vox Celeste [TC]
49
8
  Open Diapason
61
4
  Rohr Flute
61
8
  Stopped Diapason
61
8
  Oboe
61
8
  Salicional
61
  Tremulant
               
Pedal Organ – 32 notes
16
  Bourdon
30
       
16
  Lieblich Gedeckt
SW
       
               
Couplers
    Swell to Pedal   Swell to Great 16', 8', 4'
    Great to Pedal   Swell to Swell 16', 4'
    Pedal to Pedal Octave   Great to Great 16', 4'
               
Adjustable Combinations
    Pistons No. 1-2-3 affecting Swell Organ stops
    Pistons No. 1-2-3 affecting Great Organ stops
               
Pedal Movements and Accessories
    Swell Pedal   Wind indicator
    Crescendo Pedal   Crescendo indicator
    Great to Pedal Reversible      

             
Sources:
     Minutes of the Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the Congregational Association of New York. Syracuse, N.Y., May 1904. Walton, N.Y.: The Reporter Company, 1904.
     Nelson, George. Organs in the United States and Canada Database. Seattle, Wash.
     Odell opus list, comp. by Sand Lawn; courtesy David C. Scribner.
     Sharpeger, Charles. Organ notebook with specifications of J.H. & C.S. Odell organ, Op. 514 (1917); courtesy Larry Trupiano.

Photos:
     Church-Building Quarterly (Vol. XIX, No. 1, January 1901). New York: The Congregational Church-Building Society, 1901: drawing of church.