Trinity Church (Manhattan)

The Trinity Church (which translates as " Trinity Church ", often referred to by the words " Wall Street" ) is one of the most famous churches in New York. It is located between Broadway and Trinity Place, just opposite the north-western end of Wall Street, and is the duty of God to a town of the U.S. Episcopal Church.

History

The present church was completed in 1846, designed by Richard Upjohn in the style of Gothic Revival ( Neo-Gothic ) and consecrated on Ascension Day. At 86 meters, the tower of Trinity Church at the time was the tallest building in New York City, however, is now by skyscrapers in the immediate area has been greatly exceeded. The Trinity Church is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building standing today was preceded by two earlier buildings, from which period also the adjacent cemetery. The first church building was used from 1698 to the church and was destroyed on September 21, 1776 by ​​a due to acts of war erupted during the American Revolutionary War in Lower Manhattan major fire. The construction of the second church building began in 1788, he was ordained in 1790. This structure was in winter 1838/1839 damaged by snow load, and then resigned.

In the cemetery of Trinity Church located graves of some famous personalities of the U.S. founding history, among others, Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), William Bradford (1590-1657), Robert Fulton (1765-1815), Albert Gallatin are (1761-1849 ) and Johann Jacob Astor ( 1763-1848 ).

Organ

Today's Trinity Church had a 1846 built by Henry Erben pipe organ. This has been extensively revised and renewed in the 1920s by the EM Skinner Organ Company, and in 1961 by the Aeolian Skinner company. Caused by the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on the nearby World Trade Center dust and dirt deposits led to severe corrosion damage to this organ. As an interim solution until the reconstruction of a three-manual pipe organ an electronic organ of the company Marshall & Ogletree was procured with game table of the Italian organ builder Fratelli Ruffatti in 2003.

Trivia

  • In the film National Treasure of the Knights Templar is located under the church a huge treasure.
  • The church is a central action location in the video game Crysis 2.
  • The Church is also present in the video game Assassin 's Creed III.
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