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English: Greater Love Fellowship, 2205 Genesee Street at Domedion Avenue, Buffalo, New York, September 2020. The interesting architectural design of the church - Modernist in style, but heavily influenced by Late Gothic Revival - is the work of the firm of Shelgren & Whitman, who adapted an earlier design by Bley & Lyman. Here we see the sleek straight lines and simplified geometrical forms typical of midcentury architecture accentuated by the presence of bluntly pointed arches, which are found crowning the entrances on the east side of the building as well as in the recessed portion of the façade. Noteworthy also is the tower, featuring an open belfry and a hipped roof in copper. The church was built to serve as home of St. Andrew's Evangelical Church, one of the first to be established in the outer portion of the Schiller Park neighborhood of Buffalo, which at that time (1904) was only beginning to change over from open fields to an urban area. Rev. Gottlieb Berner's efforts to evangelize among the small but growing community of German-Americans led to the construction of a small frame chapel, which was planned to be replaced by a larger building. Construction began in 1919 but came to a halt in 1923 due to lack of funding; the congregation continued worshipping in their partly completed church, covered by a temporary roof, for the next quarter-century as the Great Depression and World War II stymied any thought of recommencing construction. The building was finally completed in 1951. St. Andrew's United Church of Christ, as it was ultimately known, dissolved in 2007, following which their former home was purchased by Greater Love Fellowship, a Pentecostal church with a majority-black membership.