Trinity Episcopal Church (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)

Trinity Episcopal Church of Hattiesburg was modeled after a Knights Templar church in London, England. The church began in 1895 with the first recorded service of the congregation and in July 1901, Trinity Mission was organized during a meeting at the Forrest County Courthouse. The congregation was then adopted into the Mississippi Diocese at the Diocean Countil the following April, 1902. Church services during those first years were held at the Forrest County Courthouse and then later at the First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg until 1902 when the congregation built a wooden frame church on Buschman Street on a parcel of land acquired in 1899.^[2]