[4] The church was founded in 1839 by German Lutheran immigrants from Saxony who had arrived in the United States in 1838.

Much of their party soon traveled south to Perry County, Missouri; those who remained in St. Louis started a church that went for three years with neither name nor dedicated worship facility.

[6] The congregation's school had roots dating to the 1830s when the Saxon children studied on their journey to the United States.

[8] When he died in 1841, his brother Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther accepted the call to lead Trinity Lutheran.

The congregation rebuilt the sanctuary on the same property and was able to incorporate the pulpit and baptismal font that had survived the tornado.