Just got back from a trip to Bedford and Blaire County, PA today.
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This is the Messiah Lutheran Church just north of Bedford.
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An abandoned church, what looks like would have been a Lutheran church as well in Jennerstown, Somerset County.
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Friends Cove United Church of Christ just south of Bedford, the 1833 church is on the left and the church building on the right was built in 1888.
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Another photo of the above church
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St. John's the Baptist Catholic Church in the tiny town of New Baltimore, Somerset County. This church is huge for such a small town, probably about 175 people in the town. All the stained glass windows are Tiffany glass. The town's founder, a wealthy Baltimore merchant named Michael Riddlemoser, envisioned New Baltimore as a safe haven for Catholics when he settled there in 1829. The current church and monastery was built in 1888. Its very unique in that the interior is all wood, of which I haven't seen in a church of its large size.
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An exterior photo of the above church and the 1879 New Baltimore Covered Bridge.