Long before most locals started calling it the “Fish Church,” Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rocky Point was already being recognized as a local landmark.
This New York Public Library image, cataloged as “Long Island’s newest landmark, Trinity Lutheran Church, Rocky Point,” documents the striking modern structure designed by architect Edward Slater. Groundbreaking for the building took place on Dec. 9, 1962, and the sanctuary was dedicated on June 28, 1964.
Trinity’s history in Rocky Point goes back even further. The congregation began in 1941 as an extension of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Port Jefferson, when about 20 students gathered for Sunday School classes in a small building on Jefferson Street. By 1949, the “Rocky Point Annex” formally incorporated as Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church…