page_title: Nast Trinity United Methodist Church
section_title: Organic history
hierarchical_section_title: Nast Trinity United Methodist Church / Organic history
caption_attribution_description: English: Sanctuary inside the First German Methodist Episcopal Church (now Nast Trinity United Methodist Church), located at 1310 Race Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1881, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is part of the Register-listed Over-the-Rhine Historic District.
context_page_description: The Nast Trinity United Methodist Church is a historic congregation of the United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Designed by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford and completed in 1880, it was the home of the first German Methodist church to be established anywhere in the world, and it was declared a historic site in the late twentieth century.
context_section_description: Born in 1807 in the city of Stuttgart in Germany, William Nast immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-one.  After teaching at the United States Military Academy and at Kenyon College, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of twenty-eight and was soon ordained to the Methodist ministry.  Starting in Cincinnati in 1837, he began a process of organizing Methodist churches among German immigrants throughout the United States.  Although the members of the new First German Methodist Episcopal Church originally worshipped in the nearby Wesley Chapel, they soon acquired the Race Street property on which the present church building is located.  Eventually named Nast Methodist Church for its founder, the congregation merged with Trinity Methodist Church in 1958, and the two churches' names were mingled.
  Trinity Methodist was older than Nast Methodist, having been established in 1835.  Its founding members had come together from several older Methodist Episcopal churches in various parts of the city, including Wesley Chapel; because the denomination lacked churches in the city's downtown, a lot was purchased on Ninth Street and the Trinity congregation's building erected there.  Over the years, Trinity was weakened multiple times by the establishment of several other congregations by some of its former members; more than half of its members left to found Walnut Hills Methodist Church in 1870, and the 1892 creation of Clifton Methodist Episcopal Church resulted in the departure of three-fourths of Trinity's leading members.  By the middle of the twentieth century, the neighborhood surrounding Trinity's church building had become part of Cincinnati's central business district, and the congregation was continuing to shrink in both membership and money; as a result, it merged with Nast Methodist Church.  Located on Ninth Street west of Race Street, the former Trinity Methodist Church building continues in existence to the present day.
caption: Sanctuary
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