Calvary Church (Manhattan)

[2][3] That building was moved to the current location in 1842,[3] and the new Renwick-designed Gothic Revival sanctuary was completed in 1848.

It has a large interior space, about 27 feet (8.2 m) between the columns, which were designed to hold up the heavy slate roof without the use of exterior buttresses.

[10] The parishioners of Calvary donated the church’s baptismal font to the new cathedral, and it is located in the Bethlehem Chapel.

Dr. Samuel Shoemaker was the minister there, from 1925 to 1952, Calvary House became the American center of the Oxford Group,[7] from which came some of A.A.'s major underlying ideas.

[3] Bill Wilson, the co-founder of the twelve-step group, wrote: "It is through Sam Shoemaker that most of A.A.'s spiritual principles have come.