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In 1906, Holy Trinity, along with much of San Francisco, was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire. The disaster necessitated the need to find an alternative location to celebrate Divine Liturgy until the parish could rebuild. The home of [http://www.sanfranciscogreeks.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5 Alexander Kosta], one of Holy Trinity's founders, was chosen in the interim. By fall, work had already begun on a second church building not far from where the original site was destroyed. The new church was completed in 1907 and a Greek language school, the first west of Chicago, was opened in 1912.
In 1908, two years after the great earthquake and fire, chaos erupted in the San Francisco Greek Orthodox community. The community experienced its first major schism and led to the founding of a second church. The schism started after a disagreement over parish council elections and the handling of money. It turned violent on July 12, 1908, when police were called to Holy Trinity (link article). The feud resulted in Ioannis Kapsimalis (former parish council president and Greek Consul) leading a faction to start its own church, [http://www.sanfranciscogreeks.com/index.php/historical-society?id=72 St. John Prodromos]. Built on Rincon Hill (Stanly Place/Sterling Place), it included offices and a meeting hall named "Alexander the Great Meeting Hall." Father Tsapralis was hired as the first priest at St. John Prodromos. In turn, the Holy Trinity community hired [http://www.sanfranciscogreeks.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=30&pid=237#top_display_media Fr. Stefanos Macaronis] to succeed Father Tsapralis as the priest of their parish. Regardless of the historical consequences of the feud, the factions wouldn’t remain split for long. In December 1909, they resolved their differences: the property of St. John Prodromos was sold to Holy Trinity for $5 , Fr. Tsapralis was rehired by Holy Trinity and Fr. Macaronis moved to a parish in Oregon. From 1910 until the church on 7th Street was raised to install a meeting hall in 1922, this property served as the offices and meeting hall for the community. The Stanly Place property was sold in 1936 to the State of California to make room for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge].
