The New York Buddhist Church, founded in 1938 by Reverend Hozen Seki, was the first Buddhist religious institution chartered in New York State. A Jodo Shinshu temple and member of the Buddhist Churches of America, it is affiliated with Nishi Hongwanji in Kyoto, Japan. The temple, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, holds Sunday services and displays a bronze statue of Shinran Shonin that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.