St. Andrew's Church Collection
History of a former church building.
Contents: About the Collection | About the About Page | Tech
About the Collection
St. Andrew’s Church was an Episcopal congregation located in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Construction began in 1949 and the first service was held in 1952. In 2003, the election of the first gay bishop created a rift between the Episcopal church. The St. Andrew’s congregation decided to part ways with the Episcopal Diocese and become an Anglican church. They continued to hold services in the building until 2013, at which point the building largely sat unused save for a few events held with the permission of the diocese that retained ownership of the building. In 2020, the building was deconsecrated after the new owner bought the building with the intention of repurposing it as a home and business space. The items you see here reflect the history of the building as it has moved from a religious to secular space in the community.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.