Downtown, near ground zero is one of the oldest and most renowned of NYC's churches. St. Paul's is the chapel to Trinity Church, which is part of the Episcopal Parish and the worldwide Anglican community. When NYC was our nation's capitol, George Washington worshiped here. Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were congregants. In those days congregants rented pews from the church; so everyone had an assigned place. The pews have been removed and replaced with chairs to make the church more of a community.
Recently, the chapel was the recovery station for those working on the clean-up after 9/11. There are memorials to their service inside the Chapel. As you enter on the right in the corner is one of the memorials to the 9/11 First Responders. It has all the patches from all the groups of firefighters and others who assisted in the cleanup.
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