Saint John Cantius Church

Saint John Cantius Church is a church in Borough of Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Saint John Cantius Church is situated nearby to Sixty-Second Street Bridge, as well as near the islet Sixmile Island.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sixty-Second Street Bridge and Bayernhof Music Museum.

Sixty-Second Street Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Senator Robert D. Fleming Bridge, commonly known as the 62nd Street Bridge, is a truss bridge that carries Pennsylvania Route 8 across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Morningside and Lawrenceville and Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. Sixty-Second Street Bridge is situated 2,000 feet south of Saint John Cantius Church.

Bayernhof Music Museum

Museum

Photo: Daderot, CC0.

Bayernhof Music Museum features a major collection of automated musical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located six miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in the suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, it is housed in a German-style mansion… Bayernhof Music Museum is situated 1 mile east of Saint John Cantius Church.

Sixmile Island

Islet

Sixmile Island is an alluvial island in the Allegheny River in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Despite being shown as part of Sharpsburg borough on some maps, including from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, it is part of O'Hara Township.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include O’Hara Township and Strip District-Lawrenceville.

O’Hara Township

Town

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O'Hara Township is a township with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh. The community was long organized as a township, and retains "Township" in its official name, but adopted a home rule charter in 1973 and is no longer subject to the Pennsylvania Township Code.

Strip District-Lawrenceville

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

The Strip District and Lawrenceville are two prominent neighborhoods on the eastern side of Pittsburgh, in an area with many former industrial and warehouse districts where many immigrant workers lived.

Aspinwall

Village

Photo: Leepaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Aspinwall is a borough on the Allegheny River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 2,916 at the 2020 census. Aspinwall is situated 1½ miles east of Saint John Cantius Church.

Saint John Cantius Church

Type: Church
Denomination: Catholic
Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Borough of Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.49665° or 40° 29′ 48″ north

Longitude

-79.93589° or 79° 56′ 9″ west

Elevation

745 feet (227 metres)

Open location code

87G2F3W7+MJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 507056581

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=catholic

GeoNames ID

7184108

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