GREATER PITTSBURGH'S CHURCHES 
There are more than 2,000 church properties within a 
thirty-mile radius of Pittsburgh, which have a valuation of 
more than $100,000,000. This value averages about $53 for 
each inhabitant of the district, and almost $70 for each person 
affiliated with the churches. Of Greater Pittsburgh’s church- 
es, 561 are located in the City of Pittsburgh, and 1,301 in 
Allegheny County. The remainder of the total given as with- 
in the 30 mile radius are in portions of Butler, Beaver, West- 
moreland and Washington Counties, within a circle extend- 
:ng 30 miles from the Pittsburgh court house. Proportionally 
the church population of Pittsburgh is one-fifth larger than 
that of the rest of the United States. 
Almost a million and a half people are affiliated with the 
churches of Greater Pittsburgh. The church population of 
Greater Pittsburgh is larger than the combined population 
of the five states of Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey 
and Wyoming. More than 2,200 clergymen conduct services 
in the community and religious instruction is given in Sunday 
schools with almost 450,000 Greater Pittsburgh’s youths. 
Allegheny County has more Sunday schools than any 
other county in the State of Pennsylvania. It has twelve 
schools where the regular attendance is over 500, and one with 
a registered list of 1,100 persons. 
Greater Pittsburgh is the seat of bishops of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal. Roman Catholic and 
Greek Catholic churches. 
Within the Greater Pittsburgh district the following enu- 
meration of churches may be made: Roman Catholic, 300; 
Presbyterian, 275; Methodist Episcopal, 267; Evangelical 
Lutheran, 227; Baptist, 203; United Presbyterian, 178; Pro- 
testant Episcopal, 75; Hebrew, 62; Reformed, 48; Christian, 
46; Greek Catholic, 45; Free Methodist, 32; African Metho- 
dist Episcopal, 81; Evangelical, 24; Methodist Protestant, 23; 
United Brethren, 21; Christian and Missionary Alliance, 16; 
Greek and Russian Orthodox, 14; Evangelical Church of North 
America, 10; Africian Methodist Episcopal Zion, 14; Re- 
formed Presbyterian, 18; Church of God, 12; Spiritualist, 11; 
Primitive Methodist, 11; Christian Science, 10; Congrega-