Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. [ARTICLE]

THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

terior were a high tower at the corner and two large gables on each facade, with small towers at the extreme ends oi each facade. The corner tower was 160 feet high from the ground to the finials. Its general form was square, but over the two principal entrance ways, one of which is on the Clinton avenue side and the other on the Greene avenue side of the tower, there was a rounded projection carried up for two stories. The interior of the building was very beautiful. A warm rouge tint was the prevailing color, matching the yellow pine timbers of the roof trusses, all of which were left in the natural color of the wood. The general shape of the interior of the church proper was that of a large ampitheater, semicircular shape. There were two galleries. and the whole seating capacity was about 5,000 people, about one-half on the main floor and the remainder was in the galleries.