Explore New York City's Museums & Sacred Centers
In NYC, discover the history & art of religions!
Delve into our selection of religious exhibits in the museums of NYC. Household Gods is currently at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. There is also The Cloisters, a medieval musuem in far north Manhattan , which is showing fantastic creatures in medieval literature. And so much more!
Museums & Sacred Centers
Spiritual Art Tours in the Metropolitan Musuem of Art
This popular feature was established two years ago.
Spirituality in Art Tour Guide Gary Himes in front of Ducclo di Buoninsegna’s “Madonna and Child,” ca1290-1300; and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ “The Virgin Adoring the Hosts,” 1852. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1000 Fifth Avenue
| Sunday | 10 am–5 pm |
|---|---|
| Monday | 10 am–5 pm |
| Tuesday | 10 am–5 pm |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 10 am–5 pm |
| Friday | 10 am–9 pm |
| Saturday | 10 am–9 pm |
Eve's influence on fashion design
Annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Show has many side-glances at faith and fashion, reflecting an intensitifying trend of interest in religion at museums.
The first synagogue in America purpose-built by immigrants from Eastern Europe.
Sunday – Friday: 10AM – 5PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Wonderful architecture & museum. On God’s Row Eldridge Street, which has many Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and other religious sites and a museum dedicated to Greek Jews. On the border between the Lower East Side & Chinatown. Vanessa’s Dumplings is cheap and delicious.
ADMISSIONS
Adults: $15
Students & Seniors: $10
Children 5 – 17: $8
‘Pay What You Wish’ admission is offered Mondays & Fridays.
*Please note groups 10 people and over must book in advance and pay admission.
Jewish Theological Seminary Library Exhibits & Jewish Museum
JTS on W118th St near Columbia, JM is on E 92nd St on the Upper East side
- JTS: Your People Shall Be My People: Conversion to Judaism through the Centuries
- JM: Stories of Identity, Culture, and Community
- JM: Walter Benjamin & Photography
- JM: Circa 1776: Jews in Colonial America
JTS:
- Monday: 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
- Tuesday: 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
- Wednesday: 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
- Thursday, 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Monday: 11 am – 6 pm
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 11 am – 8 pm
Friday: 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 6 pm
Free admission every Saturday and for select holidays.
Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions
225 Madison Avenue/36th Street
The Morgan Library & Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:30 am to 5 pm, and Friday from 10:30 am to 8 pm.
Frederick Law Olmsted designed the park according to the theology of Horace Bushnell.
Olmsted said that Central Park, which he designed with Calvert Vaux, is “a specimen of God’s handiwork.” He hoped that it would heal “the hundreds of thousands of tired workers” of their “vital exhaustion,” “nervous irritation” and “constitutional depressions.”
Olmsted designed the heart of the park around an incident recounted in the New Testament in which Jesus healed a paralytic man beside the pool of Bethesda where a healing angel was said to appear.
Olmsted believed that he had a calling to help religious leaders to bring spiritual relief to New Yorkers. As Vice President of the New York State Charities Aid Association, he circulated appeals to ministers asking that they send to the park their congregants who needed recuperation from stress and illness.
His and Calvert Vaux’s design of Central Park artfully and systematically provided vistas and paths that would make one feel like the special object of a loving God and a beautiful city. The influence and love of God is not intrusive, demanding or a logical argument but subliminal, gentle, respectful narrative of love.
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