Woodside Community Church (Baptist)
| Woodside Community Church (Baptist) | |
|---|---|
 Church Building on the Corner of 41st Ave & 58th St. | |
| 40°44′40″N 73°54′23″W / 40.7444591°N 73.90650719999996°W | |
| Location | Woodside, NY |
| Country | United States |
| Website | http://www.woodsidecommunitychurch.org/ |
| History | |
| Founded | 1880 |
Woodside Community Church is a Baptist church located in Woodside, New York, in the borough of Queens. The church began in the 1870s as an effort of several men from different churches around the local areas. They had been concerned that there was no significant testimony of the Gospel message in Woodside, so they began a “Sabbath School”, eventually meeting over a carpenter’s shop near present-day P.S. 11. This “sabbath school” grew and was organized as a church in the 1880s. The church would congregate in a traditional church building located at the intersection of Woodside Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue (then Greenpoint Ave.), and 58th Street. The church building at that site was a traditional church structure with steep steps rising from sidewalk to the church’s front door. In 1887, the church officially incorporated with the State of New York, as “The First Baptist Church of Woodside, Long Island”. (Queens did not become its own county until 1889).
When the elevated train was built along Roosevelt Avenue, the noise become an unbearable hindrance to worship services. So a new location was sought out – a vacant, wet piece of land was found nearby on the corner of 58th Street & 41st Avenue (then Betts & Mantson Avenues), and a new building was built in the early 1920s. The church changed its name in 1926 to “Woodside Community Church (Baptist)”. The church parsonage was completed in 1959.
Today Woodside Community Church is a multi-national church, that emphasizes Biblical Preaching, the centrality of the Christian Gospel message, and missions.