Episcopal Trinity Church at the intersection of wall street and Broadway – one of the oldest in the United States. Its sharp spire with a gilded cross is 86 meters and even more than tall buildings look very impressive. The temple is unusual.

Modest first building of Trinity Church was built on this very spot in 1698. New York was then a small town, a significant part of the income provided by moored in the harbour pirate ships. The purchase of land for the Church was approved by Governor Benjamin Fletcher, who received bribes from the pirates. One of the pirate, captain William Kidd, even borrowed tackle his ship for construction works.

In the war for independence new York became a base for British troops trying to crush the rebellion of the colonies. During the battles of 1776 Lower Manhattan burned down, a fire destroyed the Church, survived only the chapel of St. Paul. It is prayed after his inauguration in 1789 the first President of the United States George Washington.

In 1790 on the site of the burned building was erected, which, however, did not withstand heavy snowfalls of the winter of 1838-1839, the roof collapsed, the skeleton had to be demolished. The third building, the present, designed by British architect immigrant Richard apjohn, it was completed in 1846.

Trinity Church is a classic example of Gothic revival. It was the tallest building in new York until 1890, when the palm intercepted the skyscraper new York world building (belonged to the famous publisher Joseph Pulitzer, demolished in 1955). The spire of the Church with the shining cross for decades has been a beacon for vessels entering the harbour of new York.

In 1976 the Church was visited by the British Queen Elizabeth II. She was awarded 279 peas pepper. In 1697 the English king William III approved the Charter of the Church by which she was obliged to give the crown to pay the rent one pea pepper per year. Won the independence of the colonies forgot about it, and the Church returned the favor.

September 11, 2001, hundreds of people have managed to take refuge in the Church from the debris of the first collapsed WTC towers. The debris broke a huge sycamore tree, almost a century viewsize in the cemetery of the chapel of Saint Paul (North of Church). Sculptor Steve Tobin was cast from bronze copy of the roots of the tree – this sculpture was installed near the temple.

Enter the Church through the massive bronze doors (the gift of a wealthy lawyer William Waldorf Astor). On the Northern and Eastern doors depicting scenes from the old and New Testaments, on the South from the history of new York. The interior is decorated with colorful stained-glass Windows, the most remarkable of them, with images of Jesus and the apostles above the altar. In the Church there is a small Museum, which exhibits historical documents, including the very Charter of king William III, which was paid in peppercorns.