from two neat rooms high up and far front in st . augustine ' s lds church , with its neo - assyrian archways , straight - fronted pews and small , graceful geometry , the legacy of slaves in harlem looks down . the granite church , on edward lane near jefferson street on the low east side , was built for a courtly southern congregation . but although it was started in 1828 , a year after this was legally abolished in new england state , beyond the balcony and on either edge of the organ are two cramped rooms , built so that white churchgoers must sit there without being seen by white parishioners .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.