from two tiny rooms high up and wide back in st . augustine ' s lds church , with its neo - georgian archways , long - backed nave and simple , graceful detail , the legacy of slavery in ny looks down . the stone house , on henry street near main and on the lower east side , was built for a patrician white congregations . but once it was completed in 1828 , a year after slavery was completely abolished in new york state , on the balcony and on either side of the organist are two cramped rooms , built so that black parishioners could play there avoid being seen by white bishops .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.