First Trinity Lutheran Church
First Trinity Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 309 E St., DC, 20001 in Washington, DC 20001. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 16 Lutheran congregations in the city.
First Trinity Lutheran Church is a diverse, caring and welcoming Christian community in the heart of our nation’s capital, loving and serving our neighbors.
Serving since 1851 · Services in Swahili · Elevator
309 E St., DC, 20001, Washington, DC, 20001Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · we worship
Phone: (202) 737-4859 · Website: http://firsttrinitydc.org/
Shares a ministry location with First Congressional United Chr.
First Trinity Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 18 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across District of Columbia — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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Latest from First Trinity Lutheran DC's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Trinity Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
Churches near First Trinity Lutheran Church
- First Congressional United Chr — 0 mi away
- Holy Rosary Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Mother of God Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Downtown — 0.4 mi away
- Assemblys Church — 0.4 mi away
- Chinese Community Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- National Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Reformation — 0.8 mi away
- Lutheran Volunteer Corps — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Olivet Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- St Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
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