O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness: The Church of Saint Thomas in the City of New York.
This website finds its home in Rome, I couldn’t quite think of any other city with quite the same number of churches, now, when I think of the Anglican equivalent of Rome, I naturally think of London. When we think about the new world the name of one city comes to mind: New York, the city that never sleeps and where everything is and where everything can happen. Manhattan is the one borough that is at the heart of New York, first settled by the Dutch and then one of the most important port cities in the British 13 colonies, there weren’t many Anglican churches at this time, Trinity church and its chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Paul come to mind. Its land was given by Queen Anne and because it was endowed with a massive parish, it remains one of the wealthiest landowners in the city of New York. Then came the 19th century, it is true that New York was always quite loyalist, but it was toward the mid of the 19th century that the city begun to expand massively due to trade, then came t