Nearly 170 NY houses of worship open for tours this weekend
A 1925 synagogue in Queens, Astoria Center of Israel, has exquisite decorative murals by French art deco painter Louis Pierre Rigal.
Elsewhere in the state, Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church in Binghamton, built in the late 1800s, is a Victorian Gothic distinguished by its carved limestone trim and rugged bluestone walls.
The conservancy's sacred sites program provides aid for the restoration of culturally significant religious properties.