The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd was one of three Episcopal churches in
Binghamton, NY alongside
Trinity Memorial Church and
Christ Church. Designed by
Henry Martyn Congdon, a prolific architect of Episcopal churches, Good Shepherd was completed in 1871.
Anglican realignment In the early 2000s, Good Shepherd's clergy and several of its members objected to
theological liberalism and the
ordination of gay clergy in the Episcopal Church. As part of the broader Anglican realignment, Good Shepherd in November 2007 voted to withdraw from the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York and affiliate with the
Anglican Church of Kenya. The rector and his wife, the Rev. Matthew Kennedy and the Rev. Anne Kennedy, voluntarily renounced their orders in the Episcopal Church in December 2007, and the congregation began negotiations with the diocese over ownership of the property, of up to $250,000 for the church and rectory and up to $150,000 for the church. However, in April 2008, the diocese sued the congregation seeking an injunction ordering it to hand over the church property. A year later, in February 2010, the Diocese of Central New York sold the church to the Islamic Awareness Center, The purchase price was $50,000, just one-third of what had been offered by the departing congregation and far less than the assessed value of $386,400. ==Architecture==