Trinity Church has been a beacon on the Newport, Rhode Island horizon for the past 299 years, a prominent landmark for mariners, and the oldest surviving church building in Newport. Now a new Fisk organ, Opus 170 has been commissioned honoring the Church’s tricentennial year.

We are proud to contribute to this extraordinary milestone in the long history of Trinity Church.

The original organ in Trinity Church was the first organ shipped to America from Europe intended for use in church services. (New England Puritans were not fond of organs, calling them “the Devil’s box of whistles!”) Bishop George Berkeley commissioned the noted London organbuilder Richard Bridge to build our instrument, and sent it as a gift to the Trinity Congregation in 1733. Except for its oak case that instrument was replaced in several iterations between 1846 and 1972.