Trinity Church, Episcopal church in the Financial District, Lower Manhattan, United States
Trinity Church is a Gothic Revival church of reddish-brown and pale brown stone at 89 Broadway, opposite Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. Richard Upjohn designed it; the main tower on the right carries a pointed spire with corner pinnacles, tall pointed-arch louvered windows and a projecting gable above a rose window, and lower gabled sections with steep roofs extend to the left.
Trinity parish received its charter from King William III on May 6, 1697, and the first church, a modest rectangular building, was constructed in 1698; it burned in the Great New York City Fire of 1776. The second church was consecrated in 1790 and demolished after snow damage in the winter of 1838–39. Richard Upjohn's third church was built from 1839 to 1846 and consecrated on Ascension Day.
The churchyard holds the graves of Alexander Hamilton, his wife Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and his son Philip, along with Robert Fulton, Albert Gallatin and John Jacob Astor. The parish received its charter from King William III on May 6, 1697, with an annual rent of 60 bushels of wheat.
The church stands at 89 Broadway, opposite the northwest end of Wall Street, between Broadway and Trinity Place. Subway stations at Wall Street and Rector Street are steps away. The churchyard next to the building is a burial ground of the parish, and the church is a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District created in 2007.
The tower made Trinity the tallest building in the United States until 1869, and in New York City until 1890. Its 86-metre spire, completed with the church in 1846, was later dwarfed by the skyscrapers around it. The parish's real estate holdings were valued at over $6 billion as of 2019.
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