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Through a Window
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
Duquesne, Pennsylvania, USA.
For more from this church, see my "Abandoned Church in Duquesne" album.
On a sunny December afternoon I visited Duquesne, a town about half an hour from my home in Pittsburgh. I had a notion from Google Maps that a particular neighborhood would be a good place for pictures of urban decay. It contained a large disused church and many empty lots where buildings had been removed.
The church turned out to be Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, a Slovak church built in the first decade of the 20th century. Various online sources state that it was deconsecrated in 1985 and the congregation moved to a different location.
In case anyone is wondering, I did not enter the church or the adjacent rectory. I walked across several empty lots, and I held my camera through an empty window frame to take a few shots inside, but that was the extent of my trespassing.
Also, it's worth pointing out that not all of Duquesne looks like this. There are still plenty of inhabited buildings in other parts of town, though far fewer than there were in the 1930s, when the town's population was three times its present-day total.
Through a Window
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
Duquesne, Pennsylvania, USA.
For more from this church, see my "Abandoned Church in Duquesne" album.
On a sunny December afternoon I visited Duquesne, a town about half an hour from my home in Pittsburgh. I had a notion from Google Maps that a particular neighborhood would be a good place for pictures of urban decay. It contained a large disused church and many empty lots where buildings had been removed.
The church turned out to be Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, a Slovak church built in the first decade of the 20th century. Various online sources state that it was deconsecrated in 1985 and the congregation moved to a different location.
In case anyone is wondering, I did not enter the church or the adjacent rectory. I walked across several empty lots, and I held my camera through an empty window frame to take a few shots inside, but that was the extent of my trespassing.
Also, it's worth pointing out that not all of Duquesne looks like this. There are still plenty of inhabited buildings in other parts of town, though far fewer than there were in the 1930s, when the town's population was three times its present-day total.