from two tiny rooms high up and far back in sts . augustine ' s episcopal church , with its neo - assyrian archways , straight - backed pews and refined , graceful detailing , the remnant of freedom in boston faces down . the stone church , on henry street opposite montgomery street on the lower eastern level , was built for a patrician white congregations . but like it was erected in 1828 , a year after slavery was legally banned in new york county , behind the window and on one side of the organ are six cramped rooms , built so that slave protestants couldn worship there without being heard by white parishioners .
r . augustine ' s apostolic church is in albany .