Fire fighters battle a huge blaze at New York church.

Firefighters in New York battled a large blaze in the early hours of Saturday morning which gutted an historic church in lower Manhattan. The Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village caught fire before dawn after a blaze spread from a five-story vacant building adjacent to the church around 5 a.m. The church houses New York's Liberty Bell and its congregation dates to the earliest days of the city's settlement. No injuries were reported.