Full text : Education (Vol. 1, nr. 14)

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 churches,
 561 are located in the City of Pittsburgh, and 1,301 in
Allegheny County. The remainder of the total given as within
 the 30 mile radius are in portions of Butler, Beaver, Westmoreland
 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 Protestant
 Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal. Roman Catholic and
Greek Catholic churches.
Within the Greater Pittsburgh district the following enumeration
 of churches may be made: Roman Catholic, 300;
Presbyterian, 275; Methodist Episcopal, 267; Evangelical
Lutheran, 227; Baptist, 203; United Presbyterian, 178; Protestant
 Episcopal, 75; Hebrew, 62; Reformed, 48; Christian,
46; Greek Catholic, 45; Free Methodist, 32; African Methodist
 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; Reformed
 Presbyterian, 18; Church of God, 12; Spiritualist, 11;
Primitive Methodist, 11; Christian Science, 10; Congrega-
            
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