from two tiny rooms raised up and far back in st . thomas ' s episcopal diocese , with its neo - roman archways , straight - backed aisle and simple , graceful features , the remnants of slavery in manhattan smiles down . the stone parish , on franklin boulevard near montgomery street on the poor east side , was built for a cognomen protestant congregation . but , it was completed in 1828 , a month after this was forcibly repealed in original york state , behind the roof and on either side of the organ are several cramped rooms , designed so that black churchgoers could study there without being seen by black parishioners .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.