About Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is a living presence in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh.

For generations, it has stood not only as a landmark of remarkable beauty, but as a place where life in the city quietly gathers. Each week, people enter these doors seeking many different things: worship, music, stillness, meaning, community, or simply a moment of pause amid the pace of downtown life.

What unites them is the experience of being welcomed into a space that takes both people and purpose seriously.

What Happens Here

Trinity is active every day. It hosts regular worship, sacred music, concerts, and civic gatherings. It opens its nave for prayer and reflection. It welcomes thousands of visitors each year, from longtime Pittsburghers to travelers from around the world drawn by its architecture, history, and cultural presence.

Alongside what happens within these walls, Trinity supports ministries that extend well beyond them. The Cathedral serves neighbors facing food insecurity, offers practical assistance to those in need, and partners with organizations across the city to respond to real, immediate challenges. This work is steady, relational, and rooted in dignity.

Trinity is not a museum. It is a working cathedral shaped by daily use and ongoing care.

Why This Work Matters

Spaces like Trinity do not sustain themselves by accident.

Maintaining a place of this scale, history, and public openness requires constant attention, thoughtful stewardship, and significant resources. Heating, accessibility, preservation, staffing, and programming all matter. So does the commitment to remain open, welcoming, and responsive to the city it serves.

Trinity’s work matters because it holds space for meaning in public life. It offers beauty without exclusivity, tradition without stagnation, and care without condition. It creates room for reflection, celebration, service, and encounter in a city that benefits from places where people can gather with intention.

Your Support Makes It Possible

Gifts made through Celebration at the Cathedral directly support Trinity’s operations and community-facing ministries. They help ensure that this Cathedral continues to welcome visitors from across the city, across the country, and across the world, not just to admire the space, but to experience it as alive and active.

Support for Trinity is support for a place that listens, serves, and endures.

Carnival at the Cathedral 2026

A Mardi Gras Celebration and Fundraiser