Trinity Church

Trinity Church Wall Street is a vibrant and growing Episcopal parish with more than 1,600 members. Over the past 325 years, Trinity has been guided by its mission to share God’s love for all people. Trinity’s programs seek to offer shared encounters with the holy, cultivate compassion, and work for justice rooted in dignity. More than 20 worship services are offered weekly online and at historic Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, the cornerstones of the parish’s community life, worship, and mission.

Trinity Church is a historic church in New York's Episcopal Diocese in the Financial District near Wall Street. The First Trinity Church was constructed in the late 1600s after Governor Benjamin Fletcher approved the purchase of land by the Church of England for the new church; in 1697, King William III presented the church with its charter.

In addition to its historical roots, Trinity Church is well known today as a place where people took refuge from the debris in the air on September 11.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, St. Paul’s Chapel, which sits directly across the street from the World Trade Center site, suffered no physical damage.

On September 12, Lyndon Harris, then a priest on the clergy staff at Trinity and St. Paul’s, arrived at St. Paul’s Chapel expecting major damage. He was amazed to find that the church was without even a broken pane of glass. The exterior of St. Paul’s and its churchyard were covered in debris. After engineers inspected the building and pronounced it sound, cleanup began.