About Trinity Place
open • inclusive • challenging
A parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester and The Episcopal Church, faithfully serving Geneva since 1806 through Word, Sacrament, and Community Service.
Our Mission
We are a spiritual community seeking to live the gospel with integrity.
Trinity Place gathers at street level in the heart of Geneva, among our neighbors. We are a congregation of The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, finding our roots in the Anglican-Episcopal tradition, but committed to innovative worship and new interpretations of our identity.
For almost 200 years, Trinity Church has stood overlooking the City of Geneva from 520 South Main Street. After years of careful, prayerful, and realistic discernment, Trinity Church has evolved into Trinity Place, a modest storefront church where anyone may enter and encounter the Holy. We are an open, grassroots community providing an inclusive space that does not require any religious affiliation or commitments from those who gather here. The Trinity community is rooted in the spiritual values taught by Jesus: helping neighbors, honoring our Creator, and speaking truth to power. Our parish office and “the bar” are located adjacent to the worship space, and we offer their use to any program or organization that shares our greater mission.
We hope you will come and find your place with us. Contact Us to find out where you might like to jump or ease your way in.
220 Years in Geneva
Trinity Parish has served Geneva since 1805, through a wooden church, a stone cathedral, and now a humble gathering place on Castle Street. Though our physical setting has changed, our we still worship and serve our community, remaining committed to living the gospel with integrity.
In 2018, we moved from a huge historic Neo-Gothic cathedral, worshipping according to the traditional customs of The Episcopal Church in a formal sanctuary, to an intimate and elegant storefront, where we have innovated our worship style and spiritual practice. Nearly half of our congregation is new to Trinity since 2016, when we began to open the future to hear a new song. So we have been renovated from the inside out as a community, even as we shed our outside buildings. Not only do we practice change, but change is our practice in many ways.
Who We Are
Trinity Parish, Gathered Anew
By moving to Trinity Place, we have chosen a path of simplicity in our physical setting. This is not a compromise but a faithful choice. By gathering in a modest space, we remain accessible and woven into the daily life of our city, just as the early Church once gathered in homes and humble places.
We don't lock ourselves behind closed doors, but we gather where our neighbors are, on Castle Street, where we can extend the hospitality of Christ to all who pass by. We're constantly refining our vision and purpose, though we hope that our growth fosters the creation of small "microchurches" in our community and through the Finger Lakes, each rooted in our Core Values of adaptive worship, open hospitality, personal transformation, and collaborative outreach.
Growth and Goals
Where we are now: Microchurch #1, Sunday mornings at Trinity Place
Where we aim to be in a year: Create a second Microchurch that meets at TP during the week.
Where we aim to be in five years: Create a third Micro Church, worshipping in the newly reopened facility at 520 S. Main.
This model consists of spiritual communities that are not designed to grow “big,” rather, to capitalize on the intimacy of a strong sense of connection. Participants may join more than one community or migrate between communities, but each would have a unique culture aimed at a particular social niche in Geneva and the Finger Lakes.
However, the design of this model would aim to make all three communities dependent on one another through shared resources that, together, would be greater than what any one of them could do.
What’s a Microchurch?
In addition to wineries, we are surrounded by microbreweries, too. Trinity is a micro church, meaning that we have an intimate worship space and by intention, do not own property or have a lot of “stuff” to weigh us down. We can morph and change as we need to, or as the community around us changes. This gives us the freedom to imagine new ways of being a community, serving our neighbors, and making strong and important connections with others in our community whose imagination also invites them to newness. Though we may be small, our impact is large!
Join Us This Sunday
Join us for worship at 78 Castle Street on Sundays at 11:00 AM from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day, and 10:30 AM from Labor Day to Memorial Day.