Location: 531 N. Neville Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
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The First German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Pittsburgh was organized on January 22, 1837 as the First German Evangelical Congregation of Pittsburgh. Led by The Reverend “Father” John Christian Frederick Heyer, the first services were held in a Unitarian meeting house on Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh. From 1838 to 1839 the congregation worshiped in a school house and the old courthouse.
Three different downtown church buildings served the congregation from 1840 to 1925. The church built in 1840 at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Grant Street was the first Evangelical Lutheran church building erected in Pittsburgh. The second building at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Wylie Avenue, built in 1848, was undermined by a railroad tunnel. The third downtown building, Trinity Church, located on Sixth Avenue between Wylie and Fifth Avenues, was sold in 1925. The congregation moved to Oakland, with dedication of the present church building in 1927.
The congregation changed its name to First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1930 as the German language gave way to English among the members.
The church is located on the Oakland/Shadyside border within walking distance of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
A lot of the earliest records are in German.
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