While Trinity is certainly a parish with history and influence, congregation members consider it, for a variety of reasons, first and foremost, their church family.
If we could somehow be transported back in time to a Sunday morning in either the late 18th or early 19th century, how likely is it that we would see Alexander Hamilton sitting in a pew during a worship service?
When Kevin Tuerff and his partner began their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that the world was about to change forever.
Ask Trinity Archives deals with the history of Trinity Church Wall Street, which is now into its fourth century in the same location in Lower Manhattan. A viewer of the video series recently sent a question about the origin of Trinity’s ownership of the land at Broadway and Wall Street.
The archives of Trinity Church Wall Street is a rare place, where digital records produced on a laptop or photos shot on an iPhone can be found alongside documents from the 17th century written in ink on parchment.
Alexander Hamilton died in his late forties, killed in 1804 in a duel with then Vice President Aaron Burr. Less known, at least until the Hamilton musical, is the death of Hamilton’s eldest child, Philip, at age 19, also in a duel, in 1801.
The history of Trinity Church Wall Street spans more than three centuries, and overlaps the history of both New York City and the United States, with those documents and stories preserved in an extensive archive.
Our coalition of interfaith leaders calls on Mayor Bill de Blasio to help those trapped in a cycle of incarceration and homelessness. Together, we can help our justice-involved neighbors find and sustain a place they can call home.