5. It Owns the Oldest Church in Manhattan
The parish of Trinity Church contains St. Paul’s Chapel, an episcopal chapel on Broadway and Fulton Street that is also the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan. Of the many who have worshipped there in its long history, the most famous is probably George Washington, who went to service there on the date of his inauguration in 1789.
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