Trinity Reformed Church, Rochester

909 North Landing Road; Rochester, NY 14625 --- (585) 381-5330

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Telephone:	585-381-5330
Fax:	585-381-5361
Email:	trinityreformedchurch@frontier.com

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Office Hours Tuesday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(Summertime: T-Th, 9 - noon)

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History of Trinity Reformed Church Trinity Reformed Church has served the Rochester area for well over a century. The name Reformed reflects our roots in the Protestant Reformation, as one of the two original Protestant movements (the other being Lutheran). Reformed Churches choose this name to express our desire to be reformed and continually reforming according to the Word of God.

In 1609 the Dutch Reformed Church of the Netherlands was formally established, soon to find its way to a new country with Henry Hudson's journey to America in 1626. The first Reformed Church in America congregation was formally established in 1628 in a mill in New Amsterdam. Marble Collegiate Church in NYC, where Norman Vincent Peale ministered, is part of the continuation of that first congregation.

The First Reformed Church was established in Rochester in 1852, serving immigrants from the Netherlands with services in Dutch. A generation or two later, twenty-eight families of that church, desiring services in English, formed the Second Reformed Church with incorporation on October 5, 1886. Two years later the new congregation dedicated its new building on the corner of Scio and Lyndhurst Streets.

After many members began migrating to the suburbs after WW II, the congregation purchased property on Landing Road North in Brighton, heralding the move to the former Indian Landing School, in 1953. About ten years later a $180,000 building project added a new sanctuary and office wing, remodeled the old school house, and completed the parsonage at 69 Stratton Road. The new sanctuary was dedicated on Sunday, October 11, 1964.

Sometime after 1970 the congregation voted to change its name to Trinity Reformed Church. In 1995 the congregation of First Reformed Church entered into a covenant with Trinity, reuniting the two bodies as one church.

Trinity continues its heritage of offering a variety of opportunities for worship, Christian fellowship, Christian education, and service to the community. Visitors are welcome.

Email address: trinityreformedchurch@frontier.com