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Mass on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. We are a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Founded in 1868 and established in 1904 at its home on Central Park West near Lincoln Center, Holy Trinity sits at the forefront of music, liturgy, and service in New York City. Holy Trinity is located at the corner of 65th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan, down the street from Lincoln Center and directly adjacent Central Park. Holy Trinity worships in the evangelical catholic tradition o

f the Lutheran Mass with a strong emphasis on music and outreach. The congregation, which embraces a diversity of people and life-styles, finds its unity in the fellowship of worship, music and service. Holy Trinity is recognized by ReconcilingWorks http://www.reconcilingworks.org as a Reconciling in Christ Congregation, welcoming persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

06/05/2026

Our beloved Paul Fritts Op. 16 organ officially packed its pipes and made the move uptown to St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church. The journey began when an expert crew from the Paul Fritts workshop (including Paul himself!) flew in from Tacoma. They spent three days carefully dismantling the organ and organizing the pieces across our sanctuary floor.

Bright and early on May 25th, a small but mighty crew from both Holy Trinity and St. Ignatius arrived to load the truck, guided by the Fritts team. The St. Ignatius folks were absolutely thrilled to welcome Op. 16 to its new home, but they were equally excited for our next chapter. They even offered to come back this fall to help us unload our new organ!

While our sanctuary might feel a little quieter for the moment, we are overjoyed that this incredible instrument will continue to make beautiful music in New York. A huge thank you to the Fritts team and everyone who helped coordinate this seamless handoff.

05/29/2026

For the past two summers at Holy Trinity, we’ve been continuing a tradition of offering a summer sermon series based on questions received by members and friends of the congregation.

Do you have questions on matters of faith and life that you'd love to hear taken up on a Sunday morning? Would you like to hear a sermon on that one scripture passage you've never quite understood? Perhaps a Lutheran Christian response to an article or current event? With your help, Pastor Tim be preaching a summer sermon series (starting June or July depending on the number of topics received) based on this congregation’s questions, ideas, and concerns. Email topics of interest to [email protected].

05/27/2026

This past Sunday, Holy Trinity held its first Sunday Mass in the Community Room. We’ll be worshipping in this space all summer due to the transformative renovations taking place in the sanctuary. Here is a link to re-watch this service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4C2HqlNWAo

05/15/2026

Would you like to keep a piece of Holy Trinity history? Next week we will embark upon rehousing the majority of our trusty pews in advance of the church’s renovation over the summer. We have many strategies on how to do so, but while they’re still here, now is your chance to have one!

The pews come in two sizes, 14.5 and 6.5 feet long, and the component parts are solid oak and quarter sawn oak. The pews can be taken as-is for use as seating, or they can be deconstructed into their component parts for use in a carpentry project or art installation. 🪵

If you, anyone you know, and even some people you might not yet know, would be interested in a pew or two, please write to us at [email protected].

05/13/2026

Throwback to Pastor Timothy Weisman’s uplifting sermon on Easter Day ☀️

05/08/2026

On Sunday, May 17th, Holy Trinity’s Cantor Emeritus, Rick Erickson, returns to our sanctuary to conduct the J.S. Bach cantata written for Ascension Day, “Wer da gläubet und getauft wird” (BWV 37, “Whoever Believes and is Baptized”). Please join us for the 11:00 AM Mass, in celebration and thanksgiving for our current organ, the Fritts Opus 16, with a liturgical acknowledgment and appreciation for both this organ and the sanctuary.

In the days after the Mass, the organ will be disassembled and moved a bit further up the West Side, to make way for the preparation (in the organ/choir loft, chancel and nave, throughout the spring and summer) and installation (in October) of Holy Trinity’s new organ, Fritts Opus 54, commissioned in December 2023. Soli Deo Gloria!

This will be our final gathering as a congregation in the sanctuary until this fall. It will also be Rick’s final opportunity to play this much-loved organ in the sanctuary he welcomed it to, in 2011. Please join that heavenly choir – and stay for a luncheon of Celebration and Thanksgiving to follow the Mass.

04/29/2026

Throwback to Pastor Timothy Weisman’s sermon on Maundy Thursday ✝️

04/17/2026

This Sunday, we are thrilled to share the premiere of a new choir anthem, written just for us by Holy Trinity’s composer-in-residence, Elizabeth Gartman, called “The first dew on the first flower”. Written for the season of Easter, the piece’s text is a cento compiled for us by Lyda Phillips. A cento is a sort of “collage” poem, where each line is taken from other, pre-existing poems combined together to create something new.

When speaking about the music, we asked Elizabeth to aim for a style of writing that works in the heritage of the great Lutheran church music composers from the 16th through 19th centuries, in the lineage of Praetorius, Hassler, Schütz, Bach, Graupner, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. What Elizabeth ended up producing is a fresh new sound that combines 17th century polyphony and counterpoint, 19th-century functional harmonies and modulations, and 21st century effects on text painting and vocal techniques. This very “horizontal” style of writing was the foundation of all Lutheran music, but is rarely heard in 21st-century composition. We hope you enjoy hearing Elizabeth’s new anthem on Sunday; we’re excited about the future it imagines for what a new, thoughtful, 21st-century Lutheran church music could sound like!

04/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who celebrated Easter with us this week! 🌷

Thank you to all our clergy and staff; plus our choirs and instrumentalists; ushers and altar guild; assisting ministers and digital sacristans; the crew that deep cleaned the sanctuary and arranged the flowers for Easter, plus our Easter Sunday coffee hour hosts, without whom the depth and breadth of this week would not have been possible.

Thank you also to those who gave towards music and flowers for Easter! We are extremely grateful! 💐

12/04/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at HT! Join us for upcoming Advent and Christmas events:
12/5 - Wreath making in the community room
12/14 - Bach’s Magnificat
12/21 - Christmas Lessons and Carols
12/24 - Christmas Eve services 5pm & 8pm

Address

3 W 65th Street
New York, NY
10023

Opening Hours

9am - 5pm

Telephone

(212) 877-6815

Website

http://www.holytrinitynyc.org/

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