Name of Church
|
Address |
Notes |
Bethel AME Church |
407 W. Eighth |
The Bethel AME church was organized in 1884 with a permanent building at 407 W. Eighth being built in 1919 with a parsonage just east of it. It was last listed in the city directory in 1985. |
Assembly of God Church |
607 N. Joplin |
Organized in 1919 |
Countryside Christian Church |
1900 E. Fourth |
Organized in 1965 as the Central Christian Church - Website |
Church of Christ |
802 Centennial Drive |
Organized in 1951 and built first permanent building at 109 E. Washington in 1953. They moved to their current location in 1980 - Website |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints |
1507 S. Rouse |
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Church of the Nazarene |
900 E. Fourth |
Started as a tent church holding a series of revivals at the corner of Fourth and Tucker in the summer of 1920. They were such a success that a group of about 100 members charted the church and raised enough money to build a building across the street from the tent that was completed in December 1920. In 1978 as the congregation grew they built a new larger church at 816 E. Quincy and became known as the First Church of the Nazarene. - Website |
College Heights Methodist Church |
1901 S. Taylor |
Result of the merger of the United Methodist
Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church in
1968 |
Community Christ Church |
701 S. Walnut |
The Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints was established in Pittsburg in 1885 and until 1930 met in the Redman Hall on West Third. In May 1930 the church purchased a house at Forest and Walnut, remodeling it into a functional church. They are now part of the Community Christ Church. - Website |
Grace United Methodist Church |
1903 E. Elm |
In August 1947, the house of Mrs. Hanna Harlin was purchased and turned into the new home of the Elm Street Methodist Church. The name was changed to Grace United Methodist Church a few years later. In 1948 an abandoned school house was purchased and moved next to the house and was remodeled it for services. On April 12, 1953 ground was broke on the site for a new building with more class rooms. This building opened on April 11, 1954. |
New Hope Baptist Church |
213 W. Eleventh |
Founded in 1896 in the home of Rev. M. Pickins. A frame building was purchased in 1909 on the present site of the Pittsburg Middle School. The city purchased the property in 1924 for a new High School and the church moved their buildng to the site on West Eleventh. |
The Salvation Army |
307 E. Fifth |
Founded in England in 1885, the Salvation Army reached Pittsburg in 1889. They rented various halls and room throughout the community until 1913 when they built their first permanent citadel on East Fourth between Locust and Elm on the north side. In the early 1970's a new citadel was built by donations on the corner of Fifth and Elm. |
South Broadway Baptist Church |
1322 S. Broadway |
A group of Baptists met in January 1934 and decided to organize a new church in the southern part of Pittsburg. It received its charter on March 8, 1934 and began meeting in property rented and later purchased at 1106 S. Broadway. On February 21, 1939 fire struck the church burning down the building and its contents. The church met in the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home until a new building was built on the northwest corner of South Broadway and Carlton, which was dedicated on January 14, 1940. - Website |
Trinity Southern Baptist Church |
301 E. Washington |
The church was founded on January 26, 1948 with 59 members. They initially met at the Baptist Student Center at 111 East Cleveland until a more permanent building could be secured. In June 1948 a frame building was moved to the address on E. Washington from Camp Crowder in Missouri. In 1950 a new brick building was built on the site. |
Zion Lutheran Church |
100 W. Jackson |
Organized in 1876 a group of Lutheran families formed the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession of Baker Township, Crawford County, Kansas. They built a 35 x 16 building to serve as church, school and residence for the paster on two acres south of the intersection of Quincy and Rouse currently the site of the Zion Lutheran Cemetery. They continued expanding their church until in 1889 they purchased some land in the 900 block of East Washington and built a new building at a cost of $1,850. The old church on Rouse was turned into a school. In 1896 they built a larger school near the cemetery. This school was moved to the East Washington site in 1921. Services during this time were delivered in German and wasn't until 1917 that English was introduced into the sermons. In 1939, the church purchased the site of the old Steinhauser Greenhouse on the corner of Jackson and South Broadway and built a new church. In 1947 they moved the old school building which had closed in 1943 to the Jackson site while a new stone building wsa built. The new building was Dedicated in April 1954. - Website |