File:Asamblea de Iglesias Cristianas - fmr Riverside aka Ontario Street Presbyterian Church - Buffalo, New York - 20201020.jpg

English: Asamblea de Iglesias Cristianas, 213 Ontario Street at Gallatin Avenue, Buffalo, New York, October 2020. Erected in 1932, the building would be classified as Colonial Revival architecturally speaking: the small-paned windows and the swan's neck pediment above the secondary entrance, crowning a tympanum with geometric tracery and crowned in turn by a cut-stone cartouche, attest to this. But the design is far from a standard one; indeed, it incorporates a diversity of additional influences from the Romanesque Revival (the round-arched triple entrance with engaged Tuscan columns and keystone voussoirs) to the Tudor Gothic (the projecting bay window above said entrance). The building was originally home to the Riverside Presbyterian Church, otherwise known as the Ontario Street Presbyterian Church, which was founded in 1903 as a mission church operated jointly by First and Second Presbyterian Churches to serve the fledgling community of Riverside in the city's far northwest corner. The modest frame building they constructed the next year on the site of the present church was enlarged repeatedly until it was demolished in 1931 to make way for the present building. The congregation dissolved in 1990, and the building bounced around through the hands of several short-term owners before being reinaugurated in 2011 under its current identity. Asamblea de Iglesias Cristianas is a Pentecostal congregation with, not surprisingly given the name, a majority-Hispanic membership.