Located on Broadway between Fulton and Vesey Streets in
Lower Manhattan, just yards away from where building 5 of
the World Trade Center stood. It was built in 1766 and is
Manhattan's oldest public building in continuous use. George
Washington worshiped here on Inauguration Day, April 30, 1789.
Immediately following the September 11, 2001 attack, St. Paul's, a
chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street, became a staging ground for
volunteers and relief workers. Today it is a shrine. Thousands of
people pass through the chapel in lower Manhattan daily on their way
to and from Ground Zero, where terrorists steered two planes into the
Twin Towers, destroying them and killing more than 2,700 people.