St. Peter’s Church
The Historic Church of St. Peter is a Roman Catholic church in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Greensburg. Peter also has a partner parish in Grindstone, Pennsylvania named St.Photo: Ikcerog, Public domain.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: church building in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Saint Peter’s Church”
- Address: 304 Shaffner Avenue, Brownsville, 15417
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dunlap’s Creek Bridge.
Dunlap’s Creek Bridge
Monument
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
Dunlap's Creek Bridge is the first arch bridge in the United States built of cast iron. It was designed by Richard Delafield and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Dunlap’s Creek Bridge is situated 3,000 feet west of St. Peter’s Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brownsville and West Brownsville.
Brownsville
Town
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Brownsville is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, first settled in 1785 as the site of a trading post a few years after the defeat of the Iroquois enabled a resumption of westward migration after the American Revolutionary War.
West Brownsville
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
West Brownsville is a former important transportation nexus and a present-day borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
Blainsburg
Hamlet
Blainsburg is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. Blainsburg is an outlier community of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania – a hamlet-sized neighborhood with more housing acreage than West Brownsville proper.
St. Peter’s Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Borough of Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.02269° or 40° 1′ 22″ northLongitude
-79.87747° or 79° 52′ 39″ westOpen location code
87G224FF+32OpenStreetMap ID
way 338329051OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q7591336
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In Other Languages
“St. Peter’s Church” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه القديس بطرس”
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