Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts

The third Episcopal parish in Boston, it was founded on Oct. 17, 1733, by a group of fourteen men who met in a tavern. In 1829 a stone Gothic Revival building was erected on the original site of the church. Phillips Brooks, Trinity’s most famous pastor, became the rector in 1869. A new church was built under Brooks’s leadership. It was consecrated on Feb. 9, 1877. Henry Hobson Richardson was the architect for this building. It is considered by many to be a masterpiece of church architecture in the United States. The chancel was dedicated on Dec. 18, 1938. A statue of Brooks by Augustus Saint Gaudens stands outside the North Transept of the church. See Brooks, Phillips.