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Shadyside Presbyterian Church

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Built
  
1889

Designated PHLF
  
1971

Area
  
4,047 m²

Architectural style
  
Romanesque architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
75001613

Opened
  
1889

Phone
  
+1 412-682-4300

Added to NRHP
  
3 April 1975

Shadyside Presbyterian Church

Location
  
Amberson Ave. and Westminster Pl., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Address
  
5121 Westminster Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA

Similar
  
Saint Paul Cathedral, Cathedral of Hope, UPMC St Margaret, Heinz Memorial Chapel, Calvary Episcopal Church

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Shadyside Presbyterian Church is a large congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in an historic part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the corner of Amberson Avenue and Westminster Place in the Shadyside neighborhood, Shadyside Presbyterian Church was founded in 1866 as a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and has enjoyed a long history of local, national, and global recognition for its outreach and service.

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The Shadyside church building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a prime example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It was completed in 1890 to designs of American architectural firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, the successor firm to H.H. Richardson's own office.

Between 2003 and 2012, the congregation had as its senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. M. Craig Barnes, noted author and speaker, and professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, until his election as president of Princeton Theological Seminary. The Rev. Dr. Conrad C. Sharps was called as senior pastor in 2014. It was here, in 1933 that the now global practice of celebrating World Communion Sunday on the first Sunday in October was originated. It also was the first church anywhere to pioneer regular radio broadcasts of its worship, on KDKA, the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States, and was the first church to broadcast worship to both the North Pole and to the South Pole.

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