Why should the beautiful die?
About this church old Pa Pitt knows only what you see in these pictures. The sign has not changed since 2021, but the grounds are still mowed and the building is in good shape. (Addendum: The congregation informed the Presbytery that it would close the church in 2022, according to a Pittsburgh Presbytery newsletter [PDF].) Its most prominent feature is its tower with eye-catchingly prickly battlements.
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Every site referencing them as open is undated and their last Youtube post was 4 years ago.
I don’t think people realize just how many of the steeples that dot Pittsburgh’s skyline have nobody beneath them anymore. Reading I recently read Lord of the Rings for the first time since I was a boy and was struck by Tolkien’s imagery of decay and collapse of former greatness. How much more would he feel that today when the actual physical structure of churches is starting to follow the institutions that maintained them?
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