Spirit of Hope currently uses as our base of ministry the former Trinity Episcopal Church at the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd., Trumbull Avenue, and Grand River Avenue.  Opened on January first, 1893 by James Scripps, it has served as a neighborhood outreach center for 115 years.  Mr. Scripps was fascinated with English churches and traveled throughout that country sketching his favorites.  Upon his return to Detroit, he commissioned the architecture firm of Mason & Rice to design a new building for Trinity Church in the English Gothic style for a cost of $55,000.  The parish house, which includes a chapel, dining room, gymnasium, offices and classrooms was added in 1926.

The church building is composed of Trenton limestone, with walls about two feet thick.  The floor is in the traditional cruciform with stone gothic arches supporting the weight of the eighty-five foot central tower, one of the first such structures built in the United States.  Large buttresses also support this tower weight, which includes a few tons of steel in the ten bells that are suspended in the tower.

Over two hundred carvings grace the outer stone walls, including several gargoyles that function as drains for the copper roof.  Inside, ten stone angels in the sanctuary face inward, protecting the church and those inside.  Stained glass occupies several windows including a Tiffany and a LaFarge.  A large window featuring the Baptism of Jesus over the altar was conceived by the Franz Mayer Company of Germany in 1892.  The Jardine Company of New York City created for the building a 1200-pipe “tracker” organ to round out the artistic pieces within.  The building is registered as a historic place in the State of Michigan and the City of Detroit.