Holy Trinity Church is a municipally-designated historic landmark in the heart of Winnipeg.

Holy Trinity was organized in 1867, along Portage Avenue, but continued growth of the congregation prompted the church to move three times in the following decade. In 1879, a plot of land at Donald Street and St. Mary Avenue was purchased and construction began on a permanent home in 1883.

Architect Charles H. Wheeler designed the church in the Gothic Revival style with pointed arches, buttresses, spires, carved ornamentation and steeply pitched roof lines. Limestone from Stony Mountain, Selkirk, and Ohio was used to construct the highly detailed church. Stained glass sits in the dormer windows, capped by stone Celtic crosses. The windows cast multi-coloured lights across the church’s interior, onto the dark wooden pews and light limestone walls.

Marble steps lead church-goers to the sanctuary and chancel. A distinctive oak pulpit sits at the far side of the church, facing the rows of pews. The pulpit was designed by Wheeler, as was the lectern with it’s distinctive carved eagle. Hammer beam trusses that support the roof allow a clear view throughout.

The church is a rare sanctuary in the heart of a busy downtown.