St John the Divine, New York vs St Thomas Church, New York
Two churches in New York City. St John the Divine, New York has 1 ticket or tour to book; St Thomas Church, New York has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
There are two quite different ways to do this building and the choice matters. General admission gets you into the nave, which is enormous and worth an hour on its own. The vertical tour, sold separately and booked ahead, takes a small group up 124 feet inside the walls, through spiral stairs and along the buttresses to the roof, and it is the best architectural tour in New York; it sells out, particularly at weekends, and has an age minimum.
Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue stands at the corner of Fifth Avenue and West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and entry is free, with donations welcome. It is an Episcopal church famous for its music, with a choir of men and boys trained at the Saint Thomas Choir School, the only church-affiliated boarding school for choristers in the United States, and for its Gothic Revival architecture. The church is a short walk from the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center, Saint Patrick's Cathedral and the shops of Fifth Avenue, and the nearest subway station is Fifth Avenue/53rd Street.
