About Trinity Church
Trinity Church is an active Episcopal parish whose history at Broadway and Wall Street dates to a royal charter granted in 1697. The first church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1776, and the second church was attended by George Washington and members of the early federal government when New York served as the national capital. The present building, the third on the site, was designed by Richard Upjohn and consecrated in 1846. Its soaring Neo-Gothic architecture made it one of the defining landmarks of nineteenth-century New York.
Visitors can enter the sanctuary to see its stonework, stained glass, memorials, and architectural details, then walk through the adjoining churchyard. The burial ground contains the graves of Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler Church, and other figures from the Revolutionary and early national periods, as well as a monument honoring Revolutionary War soldiers believed to be buried there. Trinity remains both a working house of worship and a historic destination, offering an unusually layered experience of religious, architectural, civic, and family history in the center of the Financial District.
