Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Tenth United Presbyterian Church, Dutchtown

Tenth United Presbyterian Church

This church has a complicated history. It was built as the Tenth United Presbyterian Church. In 1940, it was sold to the Catholic Diocese and became Mary Immaculate Church, the Italian parish in Dutchtown. It went through several parish mergers and names—Our Lady, Queen of Peace, being the most recent—before being sold again, and today it serves as Jonah’s Call Anglican Church. The original church is a typical Pittsburgh corner-tower Protestant church, but the Catholics made it their own with some fine sculpture, to which the Anglicans fortunately have no objection. The Catholic congregation also moved the main entrance, which had been in the tower; the old entrance made a good frame for the Blessed Virgin.

Mary Immaculate
Perspective view of the Mary Immaculate sculpture
Maria Immaculata
Tenth United Presbyterian Church
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