Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street
(212) 602-0872
Open: Monday to Friday 7am - 6pm; Saturday 8am - 4pm; Sunday 11:15am
Tour: 2pm daily

Trinity Church is home to one of the oldest Anglican parishes which was founded in 1697. Located at Broadway and Wall Street, it is the actually the third church built on this site. When this structure was built, it was one of the grandest churches in its day, and marked the beginning of the best period of Gothic Revival Architecture in America. Richard Upjohn designed the church in 1846. The inspiration for the sculpted brass doors, a Robert Hunt design, came from Ghiberti's Doors of Paradise in Florence, Italy. Long buried beneath the grime of New York City, the rosy sandstone of Trinity Church has been revealed after careful restoration. The 280 ft (26-m) tall steeple, tallest structure in New York until the 1860's, is still an impressive sight even among its towering neighbors. Members of the church have included many prominent individuals including statesman Alexander Hamilton, steamboat inventor Robert Fulton, and William Bradford, founder of New York City's first newspaper in 1725, all of whom are buried in the church graveyard.