Architectural Details

We invite you to look around! Trinity is blessed with many rich architectural details. Our current church building was built in 1954 after the congregation decided to move from Chicago to Berwyn. The German congregation that moved to Berwyn, with it’s roots in the Lutheran tradition, brought with them a strong understanding of space. At right is the depiction of the Last Supper which graces our Altar.

At right is the Palm Sunday window depicting Jesus’ arrival into Jerusalem prior to his crucifixion. It can be found at the front right of the Sanctuary (where the choir sits). At Trinity, Palm Sunday, which is the Sunday before Easter, is also known as Confirmation Sunday - it is the day when Confirmation occurs and is a day to remember and celebrate all the past Confirmation classes (120 years!).

The stained glass windows at Trinity were originally made for our first church located in Chicago over 100 years ago. They were moved to our current church building in 1954. Each tells a story and is rich in symbolism.

On the staircase leading to the crying room, is a small window depicting Martin Luther who was responsible for the Reformation. Martin who started out as a Roman Catholic monk disagreed with a number of issues and became excommunicated - which was the birth of the Lutheran church that Trinity has its original roots in. Trinity was founded by the Lutheran Synod of North America (a distant relation to today's Missouri Synod) which became part of the Evangelical and Reformed Church in the 1930s, that united with the Congregational Christian Churches in 1957 to form the United Church of Christ.