from several humble rooms high up and further back in sts . augustine ' s episcopal church , with its neo - baroque archways , straight - backed congregants and easy , graceful detail , the curse of abolitionist in ny looks down . the stone church , on leonard corner and montgomery street on the high north ward , was built for a patrician white congregation . but , it was commissioned in 1828 , a year after slavery was legally removed in new york state , behind the balcony and on either side of the organ are two cramped rooms , built so that black churchgoers did worship there upon being seen by his parishioners .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.