Editing Roosevelt Island (section)

== Religion ==
There have been churches and chapels for several [[Christian denominations]] on the island.<ref name="Berdy Society 2003 p. 37">{{cite book |last=Berdy |first=Judith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrzQeLPyvygC&pg=PA37 |title=Roosevelt Island |publisher=Arcadia |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7385-1238-9 |series=Images of America |page=37}}</ref> The Chapel of the Good Shepherd, a Late Victorian Gothic style structure,<ref name="Diamonstein-Spielvogel 2011 pp. 84–85" /> was Roosevelt Island's first church and operated until 1958 as an Episcopal church.<ref name="Berdy Society 2003 p. 37" /><ref name="The New York Times 1975">{{cite web |date=October 20, 1975 |title=1889 Chapel Is Restored In Rite on Roosevelt I. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/20/archives/1889-chapel-is-restored-in-rite-on-roosevelt-i.html |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=King |first=Martin |date=October 20, 1975 |title=Bagpiper Shepherds an Interfaith Flock |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-bagpiper-shepherds-an-interfa/143817403/ |access-date=March 21, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=7}}</ref> The chapel reopened in 1975 as a community center.<ref name="Diamonstein-Spielvogel 2011 pp. 84–85" /><ref name="The New York Times 1975" /> The Chapel of Our Lady, Consoler of the Afflicted dated to 1909<ref name="Berdy Society 2003 p. 37" /> and was a Gothic-style stone building serving the island's [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] community.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1rQOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA646 |title=Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus |year=1908 |page=646 |issue=v. 49}}</ref> The Church of the Good Samaritan was developed for the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] community in 1917. Both the Chapel of Our Lady and the Church of the Good Samaritan have since been demolished.<ref name="Berdy Society 2003 p. 37" /> At the Metropolitan Hospital was an Episcopal chapel, the Chapel of the Holy Spirit (consecrated 1925),<ref name="The New York Times 1925" /> and a Catholic chapel, the Chapel of the Sacred Heart.<ref name="Berdy Society 2003 p. 37" />

Welfare Island originally contained the Council Synagogue, which opened in 1926<ref name="The New York Times 1926" /> and was described as having a "pleasing exterior" and a "simple, dignified interior".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Friend |first=Ida Weis |year=1928 |title=The President's Desk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3TXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |magazine=The Jewish Woman |publisher=Council of Jewish Women |page=7 |issue=v. 8–11}}</ref> Following the residential redevelopment, the Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation was founded {{circa|1987}}; the [[Chabad]] Lubavitch Center of Roosevelt Island moved into the RIJC's space in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last=Spiro |first=Amy |title='Main Street USA,' Just Across the River |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=April 1, 2010 |url=https://www.jta.org/2010/04/01/ny/main-street-usa-just-across-the-river |access-date=March 18, 2024}}</ref> Chabad of Roosevelt Island also operates a Chabad Jewish student organization in association with Cornell Tech, which accommodates many international students from [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chabad @ Cornell Tech |url=http://www.rijewish.org/cornelltech |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922224620/http://www.rijewish.org/cornelltech |archive-date=September 22, 2017 |access-date=May 25, 2019 |website=Chabad of Roosevelt Island}}</ref> There is also a [[mosque]] operated by the Islamic Society of Roosevelt Island.<ref>{{cite web |title=Islamic Society of Roosevelt Island |website=Prayers Connect |date=March 18, 2024 |url=https://prayersconnect.com/mosques/84025429-islamic-society-of-roosevelt-island-new-york-new-york-united-states |access-date=March 18, 2024}}</ref>