Now the New Zion Baptist Church in what may be Pittsburgh’s only clot of three different Baptist churches in the same spot, this former Italian parish church is a good example of the modernist interpretation of Gothic that was popular briefly after the Second World War. The fine reliefs are in a style that filters medieval religious art through a slightly Art Deco lens.
There seems to have been an inscription over the skull and crossbones (representing conquered Death), but it is no longer legible.
Sinite parvulos, et nolite eos prohibere ad me venire: talium est enim regnum caelorum. (Matt. 19:14.)
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The lack of articulation on the church façade almost works – bland but strong-ish. The school looks like a cardboard cutout. An acre of unrelenting beige.
What goes through a man’s mind when he designs something like this to be built in a city full of many much more beautiful churches? And this church is Sainte-Chapelle compared to what came later…