Clifton Park Center Baptist Church and Cemetery
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Clifton Park Center Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic Baptist
church and cemetery
at 713 Clifton Park Center Road in Clifton Park Center, Saratoga County, New York
. It was built in 1837 and is a rectangular, gable roofed, brick church in a vernacular Greek Revival
style. The adjacent cemetery is surrounded by a cast and wrought iron
picket fence and gate. There are approximately 350 burials. The congregation was established about 1794 and the cemetery about 1801.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2004.
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
church and cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
at 713 Clifton Park Center Road in Clifton Park Center, Saratoga County, New York
Saratoga County, New York
Saratoga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 219,607. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Ballston Spa...
. It was built in 1837 and is a rectangular, gable roofed, brick church in a vernacular Greek Revival
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...
style. The adjacent cemetery is surrounded by a cast and wrought iron
Wrought iron
thumb|The [[Eiffel tower]] is constructed from [[puddle iron]], a form of wrought ironWrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon...
picket fence and gate. There are approximately 350 burials. The congregation was established about 1794 and the cemetery about 1801.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2004.