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The history of the Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church is a major part of the Black history in Utah and Salt Lake City. Trinity AME. Church is a connectional church within the connectional body of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The church is under the jurisdiction of the Rocky Mountain District of the Desert Mountain Conference of the Fifth Episcopal District. Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized as Utah’s first African-American congregation (before Utah became a state), in the 1880’s with leadership of the Reverend T. Saunders. The congregation met temporarily in Church members homes and in rented facilities.
