As part of its centennial celebrations, Trinity Episcopal Church will host a lecture by Patricia C. Pongracz, author, stained-glass historian, and Curator-at-Large at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City.

The lecture, "Trinity's Tiffany Windows" will take place Sunday, Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. at Trinity, located at 1579 Northern Blvd. in Roslyn. The public is invited to attend this free event.

"In continuation of our centennial celebration, we are very excited and honored to have Patricia Pongracz share the history of the Tiffany stained-glass windows housed in our very own church here on the North Shore of Long Island," said the Reverend Margaret Peckham Clark, rector of Trinity Church.

According to Patricia Pongracz, "Trinity's windows, designed by the Tiffany Studios, focused on ecclesiastic ornamentation of the very highest caliber." Equally significant were the design choices made by the individuals in the parish who were driving the project. This input made Trinity's windows particularly unique. As a result, "Trinity offers an example of how individual drive, parish aesthetic desire and liturgical need work together to commission timeless symbolism," she added.

Established as a church in 1869, Trinity laid a cornerstone in August 1906 for a new church building, designed by the legendary architect Stanford White, in one of his last commissions. Trinity's Centennial Celebration began in November 2006 with a lecture by Stanford White's great-grandson, Samuel White. Future events include a Choral Concert on April 29 and a Gala Dinner on June 1.

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was an American artist and designer who is best known for his work in stained glass. In 1879 he joined with Samuel Colman and Lockwood DeForest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. A desire to concentrate on art in glass, however, led to the breakup of the firm in 1885, when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm which later became known as the Tiffany Studios.

Patricia Pongracz is a contributing editor of exhibition catalogs including Printing the Word: The Art of Watanabe Sadao and Reflections on Glass: 20th Century Stained Glass in American Art and Architecture, among others. She has lectured and written on stained glass with particular attention to works by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL. Her research includes reconstructing the history of Tiffany's famous chapel built for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exhibition now permanently reinstalled at the Morse Museum. The tumultuous chronicle of the storied chapel is published in The Tiffany Chapel. She has lectured on medieval glass at various museums including The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Biblical Art.

For more information on the Centennial events, contact the Rev. Margaret Peckham Clark at the church office at 621-7925 or email trinityrector@optonline.net.