Shadyside Presbyterian Church

Shadyside Presbyterian Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pittsburgh Landmark — PHLF
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
Location	Amberson Ave. and Westminster Pl., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
Built	1889
Architect	Shepley,Rutan & Coolidge
Architectural style	Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	75001613
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 03, 1975
Designated PHLF	1971

Shadyside Presbyterian Church is a large congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in an historic part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the corner of Amberson Avenue and Westminster Place in the Shadyside neighborhood, Shadyside Presbyterian Church was founded in 1866 as a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and has enjoyed a long history of local, national, and global recognition for its outreach and service.

The Shadyside church building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a prime example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It was completed in 1890 to designs of American architectural firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, the successor firm to H.H. Richardson's own office.

Between 2002 and 2012, the congregation had as its senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. M. Craig Barnes, noted author and speaker, and professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, until his election as president of Princeton Theological Seminary. It was here, in 1933 that the now global practice of celebrating World Communion Sunday on the first Sunday in October was originated. It also was the first church anywhere to pioneer regular radio broadcasts of its worship, on KDKA, the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States, and was the first church to broadcast worship to both the North Pole and to the South Pole.

External links

• Church website
• Architecture of Shadyside Presbyterian Church+
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-432, "Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Amberson Avenue & Westminister Place, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 11 photos, 6 data pages