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Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and built in 1877. The building stands 64 m (211 ft) tall and is situated at Copley Square next to the John Hancock Tower. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1080 KB) Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts - front oblique view. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1080 KB) Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts - front oblique view. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1928x1834, 905 KB) Davids Charge to Solomon (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1928x1834, 905 KB) Davids Charge to Solomon (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Circe, by Edward Burne-Jones. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the arts & crafts movement William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts Movement and is best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction, and... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2460x1735, 898 KB) Altar of the Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2460x1735, 898 KB) Altar of the Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Trinity Church, at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street in New York City, viewed from the World Trade Center See also Trinity Church, Boston Trinity Church is a historic Anglican (now Episcopal) parish in New York City, with a church at the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway. ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area - Total - Water 232. ... Library, North Easton, MA Henry Hobson Richardson (1838 - 1886) was the outstanding American architect of his day, one of a half-dozen most influential American architects. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Categories: Stub | Boston ... Aerial view of Back Bay, Boston including the Charles River, 111 Huntington Avenue, Prudential Tower, and John Hancock Tower Three different buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, have been known as the John Hancock Building, and perhaps a fourth will be. ...

Trinity is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The congregation was founded in 1733. The current building was erected after its former site burned in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. A parish is a subdivision of a diocese or bishopric within the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of Sweden, and of some other churches. ... The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the nations capital is the national cathedral of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. ... The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was a two-day conflagration that began to burn on November 9, 1872 on Lincoln Street in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Trinity is an extraordinarily beautiful church, often considered one of the finest pieces of architecture in the United States, and filled with remarkable works of stained glass, painting, and sculpture. The result is subdued and harmonious, yet very rich.

Noted artists represented in Trinity Church

Categories: Northeastern US geography stubs | Boston, Massachusetts | Massachusetts landmarks | Episcopal Church in the United States of America | Buildings and structures in Massachusetts Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 - October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor. ... Circe, by Edward Burne-Jones. ... John LaFarge (March 31, 1835–November 14, 1910) was a painter,stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the arts & crafts movement William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts Movement and is best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction, and... Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 _ Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish-French American sculptor of the Beaux Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. ...

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Trinity Church, Boston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (498 words)
	Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
	The current church building was erected after its former site burned in the Great Boston Fire of 1872, under the direction of Rector Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), one of the best-known and most charismatic preachers of his time.
	Trinity Church is the only church in the United States and the only building in Boston that has been honored as one of the ten most significant buildings in the United States by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

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