Trinity Presbyterian Church

History

Trinity was originally known as Second Omagh Presbyterian Church. The congregation was formed after fifty families of the older Omagh congregation dissented from the selection of the Rev Hugh Delap as minister in June 1751. Led by William Scott and James Nixon, they appeared before the Synod of Ulster in 1752 and were erected into a separate congregation, annexed to the Presbytery of Strabane. The site at James Street was purchased on 17 July 1752. The Ordnance Survey of 1834 records that the meeting house was built by subscription in 1754 at a cost of £600, that the congregation numbered 372 persons and that the church was repaired and ceiled in 1830 at an expense of £62.

The present church was built during the ministry of the Rev Josias Mitchell, on the same site as the earlier building, and was opened for public worship by the Rev Dr Henry Cooke on 7 September 1856. It cost £1,000. In 2002 the congregation marked the 250th anniversary of the acquisition of the James Street site, and describes Trinity as the oldest church in Omagh still on its original site.