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In 1859, the Presbytery of Philadelphia responded to a request from residents on Frankford Avenue, in Kensington, for a mission in that area. Worship services began in a house on Franklin Cemetery Avenue and a Sunday school was established.  

After World War II, and as members moved out of Kensington, Trinity eventually united with the Kensington Parish (made up by Beacon, Twelfth and Wilkey) in 1990, as its membership and financial resources declined. We shared one Senior Pastor, who rotated to each church, with a part-time Pastor in each church, who also rotated to the church...

The Oxford Presbyterian Church was organized on January 20, 1867 by the fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia and was incorporated by decree of the Supreme Court of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania on March 11, 1867.

The nucleus of this assembly was the members of the 1853 Calvary Church who began a Sunday school on the second floor of a store at Eleventh Street and Columbia Avenue early in 1856. The school soon outgrew this place, and moved to the Wagner Institute at the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Columbia...