Part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, it was located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Broadway Avenue and Fullerton Avenue in a part of the South Broadway neighborhood previously known in Polish as Warszawa, also referred to today as Slavic Village.

[4] In February 1892, Trinity Baptist Church purchased two lots on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Fullerton Street for $8,565 ($300,000 in 2023 dollars).

[6] The church was in the English Gothic architectural style,[6][7] made of red brick with buff stone trim.

[10] In the late 1930s and the early 1940s, the neighborhood around Trinity Baptist Church began to decline due to rapid industrialization and the construction of several nearby steel mills.

In April 1943, Trinity Baptist Church sold its building to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland for $35,000 ($600,000 in 2023 dollars).

Reverend Joseph F. Zabawa was named the pastor of the new congregation, which took up residence in the Trinity Baptist Church building.

[15] By 1989, housing foreclosure rates in the area reached 35 percent, causing runaway neighborhood decline.

[16] Attendance at Transfiguration declined to about 700,[7] which led the diocese to close the church's elementary school in the spring of 1990.

The intense fire burned a hole in the roof and destroyed the basement, choir loft, organ, nave, and several stained glass windows.

Transfiguration later held mass in a classroom in its closed elementary school, but attendance continued to decline and reached only 100 by 1992.