Church of The Transfiguration

The Church of the Transfiguration on Mott Street is built of dark, rough-hewn Manhattan schist, a local rock that gives its walls a distinctively textured, stony appearance. Originally constructed in eighteen hundred and one as the Zion English Lutheran Church, the building occupies a corner in what was once the center of the Five Points neighborhood. Its architecture follows a Georgian style, characterized by a rectangular plan and steeply pitched gables, though its window heads feature the pointed arches of the Gothic tradition.