From A to Z

Since you've all posted about a NYC book I've never read but that you've found fascinating and insightful, I thought I'd quickly do the same. Several years ago someone turned me on to David Dunlap's From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship.

The book is set up like a travel guide, pointing out and describing all the places New Yorkers pray and meditate, etc., but it has an added feature of remembering as many of the old and forgotten houses of worship as it can, publishing photos and describing, just for example, a church, All Angels', that once stood in what's now the middle of Central Park.