The congregation held its first service on January 6, 1833, in a hall on the corner of
Allen Street and
Houston Street. It was the first church of the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society. In 1834 it moved to a new building at 130
Stanton Street, between
Essex Street and Norfolk Street. In 1881, it moved to
East 47th Street, west of
Lexington Avenue. The church at its current location on the north-west corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue had its first service on October 15, 1939, and was dedicated by
Bishop William T. Manning on October 29, 1939. Its
rector at the time was the Rev. John Wallace Suter, Jr., who was also the
Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. The church was
consecrated on October 29, 1944. The former
rector, the Rev.
Jennifer Anne Reddall, was elected the sixth
Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Arizona in 2018 and consecrated in 2019. ==Architecture==