St. Paul's Union Church and Cemetery, also known as the Old White Church and Cemetery, is a historic
church
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* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
and
cemetery
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located at
Union Township,
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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. The church was built in 1842, and is a two-story, wood-frame
meeting house
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Terminology
Nonconformist Protestant denominations distinguish between a
* church, which is a body of people who believe in Chr ...
style building in a vernacular
Federal
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style. It measures 30 feet, 8 inches, by 40 feet, 4 inches. The church was restored in 1990–1992. The adjacent
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
includes a number of stone markers in German.
[ ''Note:'' This includes ]
It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1995.
References
External links
St. Paul's Union Church Cemeteryat
Find A Grave
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Cemeteries in Pennsylvania
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Federal architecture in Pennsylvania
German-American culture in Pennsylvania
Churches completed in 1842
19th-century churches in the United States
Churches in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania