Lost Small Churches of the North Shore: Italian Pentecostal Church, Pike Street

Italian Pentecostal Church, Pike Street - ca.1940

 Here's another church that was not lost, but transformed. Founded as a prayer meeting in 1923, the Italian Pentecostal Church was eventually located on Pike Street. In 1964, it moved to Richmond Road where it's still to be found, now named the Christian Pentecostal Church. According to its website, it's the oldest Pentecostal church on Staten Island. 

They also had a show on WPOW, 1300, Staten Island's first radio station.

St Paul Apostolic Faith Church, Pike Street - 2012

The first time I even knew Italian Pentecostalism was a thing was when my wife's old pastor, a Baptist, mentioned it was how he'd grown up. Here's an interesting article about Massimilano Tosseto, one of, if not the founder, of Italian Pentecostalism.

Insurance Map, 1936