Trinity Episcopal Church

website of the Trinity Episcopal Church

Trinity Episcopal Church was founded in 1842 to serve the needs of Episcopalians on Chicago's South Side. It is the second oldest Episcopal Parish is Chicago. Services were initially conducted in a public "saloon" until a building was erected on Madison Street and Clark Street. Later the church moved to Jackson Boulevard between Michigan Avenue and Wabash Avenue. This building was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire, at which point Trinity moved south to its present location at 26th Street and Michigan. An esteemed example of Gothic architecture, Trinity was the church of the wealthy, socially prominent families that lived in the historic Prairie Avenue District. The three-story parish house was erected in 1894. Around this time, Harriet Blair Borland, a life-long member, presented the church with the Angel Lectern, which was designed for the World's Fair of 1893.

Pastors

Almon Clarence Abel, 1901-4;