St. Mark’s, Islip

A soft cover booklet, “Picturesque Bay Shore, Babylon, and Islip”, published in 1894 and available at the Islip Public Library, states that an Episcopal Church was organized in Islip in the 1660’s and that a fine church edifice was erected in 1766 which was destroyed by fire in the early 1800’s. Be that as it may, by all accounts the year 1847 marked the beginnings of the Parish of Saint Mark’s.

At this very location the Church building was located but the only record found of when it was constructed is the corner stone bearing the date of July 4, 1847 which is now preserved on top of the 1879 corner stone of the Church building.