Missionary Temple Church of God - former St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran: (6378 Centre Ave)

German Protestants founded the St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1839. The present structure was built in 1888. The Missionary Temple Church of God began holding dual services here in the early 1980s and purchased the building in 1997.

In the past two centuries East Liberty has been home to a diverse range of races and ethnicities who established their own different places of worship. Anglo and German settlers laid out the village in the early 1800s. St. Peter’s served East Liberty’s German Protestants. After the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the East Liberty Station in the 1850s, an influx of European immigrants and African American migrants came to the area. By the late nineteenth century East Liberty had separate churches for German and Italian Protestants, Irish, Italian and German Catholics, as well as a Presbyterian church for Anglo-Americans and an AME church for African Americans.

Sources:

Collins, John Fulton Stuart. Stringtown on the Pike: Tales and History of East Liberty and the East Liberty Valley of Pennsylvania. East Liberty Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh, 1966.

Jean E. Snyder. Steel Industry Heritage Corporation Ethnographic Survey 1993 Final Report: Homewood, Point Breeze, East Liberty and Highland Park. October 28, 1993. 36. Accessed April 19, 2019 at https://www.riversofsteel.com/_uploads/files/homewood-east-liberty-point-breeze-highland-park-final-report.pdf

St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church Records, 1839-1964, AIS.1977.29, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh.