St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Perth Amboy, New Jersey)

St. Peter's Episcopal Church is a historic church at Rector and Gordon Streets in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey. It is the oldest Episcopal parish in New Jersey and contains the oldest extant gravestone in New Jersey. The church building, built from 1849 to 1852 in Gothic style, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1977, for its significance in religion. The church reported 482 members in 2015 and 263 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported nationally in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income reported for the congregation in 2024 was $153,343. Average Sunday attendance (ASA) in 2023 was 46 persons, down from a reported 127 in 2016. It is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.

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