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Incredibly, this spectacular cathedral, situated on a dramatic western crest of Morningside Heights, is still under construction--and has been, continuously, since the cornerstone was first laid on the site of an old orphan asylum in 1892 (the first services were held in 1899). An enormous and... more

Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in midtown Manhattan is known as much for its cultural offerings as its spiritual ones. An impressive but unexceptional Romanesque facade, built in 1918 for a congregation founded on the Bowery in 1835, St. Bart's contains the city's largest pipe organ (one of... more

An exquisite Greek Revival Episcopal parish church in the heart of Greenwich Village, Grace is one of the few churches in New York that retains the elsewhere-antiquated purpose as the focus of the local community. The church provides extensive adult education classes (mostly, but not entirely, of... more

Built over twenty years spanning the American civil war, St. Patrick's is the eleventh-largest church in the world and the biggest on American soil. Located in the heart of midtown, this massive French-Gothic white-marble-and-stone structure, when built, was considered a long trip from "town," set... more

An anomalous chapel in the otherwise doggedly agnostic Financial District, Trinity Church is now an idyllic sanctuary for Wall Street lunchers and visitors. That's a far cry from its eighteenth-century incarnation, whose vast landholdings in lower Manhattan made the church the wealthiest, and most... more

Where once was a wheat field now stands New York's only surviving pre-Revolutionary church, surrounded by towering office buildings and millions of bustling businessmen and women. The chapel was built in 1766 and miraculously spared in the great fire of 1776 (which destroyed the original Trinity... more