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Trinity Cathedral (Pittsburgh)
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Trinity Cathedral is an Episcopal Church in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.[1]
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Trinity Cathedral | |
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40.4413°N 79.9987°W / 40.4413; -79.9987 | |
Location | 322 Sixth Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Built | 1872 |
Architect | Gordon W. Lloyd |
Architectural style(s) | Gothic Revival |
Governing body | Episcopal Church |
Website | www |
Designated | 1970 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of Pittsburgh |
Clergy | |
Bishop(s) | Rt. Rev. Ketlen Solak |
Dean | Very Rev. Aidan Smith |
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The present Gothic church was completed in 1872 on the site of a hilltop cemetery on land deeded by heirs of Pennsylvania founder William Penn to the congregation's founders.[2] The site, centered on a terrace above the historic "point" (where the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River join to form the Ohio River) was sacred to Native Americans as a burial ground. The Trinity Churchyard has the oldest marked graves west of the Atlantic Seaboard, of both Native American leaders, French, English, and American colonists.[3]