On Sunday evenings, a Hispanic Lutheran church on the gritty south side of Williamsburg transforms into a hipster religious revival with plenty of fashion but no irony.
Worshippers with full-sleeve tattoos, skinny jeans, stocking caps and square glasses pack the pews of Resurrection Presbyterian Church on South Fifth Street.
“The fellowship with everyone here is amazing,” said Shaun Lee, 30, a skinny, scruffy East Village bartender who sports a skullcap and cargo jacket to service.
The congregation has grown fivefold since it started in 2005, with up to 150 people on Sundays.
The aisles are full of artists, actors, fashion stylists and musicians.
Even the pastor, the Rev. Vito Aiuto — trained at the Princeton Seminary — is in a band, and has recorded music with indie hero Sufjan Stevens, an occasional congregant.
“I feel at home here,” said Travis Johnson, 28, who rigs music equipment for Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine and other bands. Johnson discovered the church when he happened upon Aiuto’s album in a Williamsburg record store.
Live jazz accompanies the collection, and church suppers include plenty of red wine, but the holy hipsters are serious about Christ. During services, parishioners raise their arms in prayer and confess that God saved them from “the power of the devil.”