Welcome to Trinity at 22nd
A Center for Spirituality, Compassion & Culture

 The buildings we share offer the neighborhood a space to grow, serve, celebrate, and learn. The buildings support our community by providing a place for spiritual growth, opportunities to help the others, and enrich through arts programming and cultural activities. This includes a daycare for pre-school children, winter shelter for homeless men, neighborhood meetings, music lessons, recital and theater rehearsals, concerts, local artists' recitals, AA group meetings and 12-step programs, The Community Cook-off, recycling program, Communicare, church services, and many celebrations. 
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Trinity Center for Urban Life (TCUL) is a secular nonprofit organization that helps support the historic buildings of Trinity Memorial Church. TCUL creates a center for the people of the community and responds to their needs by providing cultural events, educational opportunities, and neighborhood services. TCUL manages the buildings for the use of organizations offering community support and public or private performances. The rooms, including the beautiful Great Hall, rebuilt after a catastrophic fire in 1994, can be rented for gatherings of all sorts, from large parties to intimate recitals. The Great Hall has become one of the preeminent small concert venues in Center City. The movable seating means that the space can be configured and decorated for many other events, as well. Concerts, receptions, weddings, meetings, workshops, conferences, and celebrations occupy these gracious buildings.
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Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church (TMC) has served as a house of worship and community resource for more than 125 years. A progressive congregation welcomes all who seek a place of spiritual growth to serve God and the community. Feasts and festivals are joyful celebrations of abundant blessings. Scripture and every-day intersect, weaving lessons of the Gospel into explorations of how to lead spiritually centered lives in our increasingly complex world. 

Housed in a unique architectural structure, TMC’s beautiful sanctuary was redesigned after a fire in 1994 to reflect the cooperative needs of real people working together to make community in a vibrant neighborhood. Open and airy, with a circular communion rail surrounding the altar Table and a flexible seating design, the superb acoustics enhance every musical note in worship, from soft voices to soaring vocals of children and adults in choir.

Worship in community is offered at 10:30 am on Sundays. Childcare and faith exploration are held mornings during the service for children of all ages. The first Sunday of each month is Youth Sunday, during which all children are invited to read or act out scriptures, greet at the door, serve the Table, and illustrate biblical lessons in all aspects of worship life. Awaken your spirit with the website Mosaic page where you may Encounter God through a mosaic of poetry and other wisdom readings. Whether live or online, Trinity is a place where you can meet in community.
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Trinity Playgroup (TPG): Trinity Playgroup’s mission is to care for, educate, and enrich the lives of pre-school children, with a view to meeting their physical, emotional, social, and cognitive needs at different stages of development. Trinity Playgroup is a State licensed, private, nonprofit, nonsectarian, play-based preschool that serves all children equally. We offer a continuous educational experience that is based in play to meet the social, academic, and emotional needs of children of each developmental level from 18 months until they are prepared to enter Kindergarten.
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Trinity Neighborhood Partnerships (Community OutReach Partnership/Episcopal Community Services): Throughout the church’s history, worship and bible study have gone hand-in-hand with a dedication to community service. In order to fulfill this mission, in 1985, Trinity Memorial founded CORP as a collaborative, non-denominational organization that connects people who care with volunteer programs that provide direct help to those among us who are homeless, hungry, elderly, lonely, or needy, without regard to race, gender, or religion. It seeks to aid those who are most vulnerable in ways that are practical by offering clearly defined opportunities for compassionate action. CORP seeks to call attention to the common humanity of helpers and those who need help, and to break the barriers that separate one human being from another. Its main programs are WinterShelter, a homeless shelter in the basement of the Parish Hall; Communicare, which matches volunteers with the frail elderly; Cook-Off, which prepares two hundred meals every month for the needy; and Sustainable 19103 / Grid Alive events that encourage sustainable practices in our community.