After sitting empty for more than five years, the Trinity Episcopal Church in Freeport has new life.The Freeport Renaissance Association has teamed with the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to rejuvenate the church into a social hall and museum.
Members of the Renaissance Association hope the 144-year-old church, now called Freeport Community and History Center, will be home to wedding receptions, banquets, and any other sort of get-together that a social hall can host.
“We realized the building had sat empty for many months; what a shame nothing was happening there,” said Mary Bowlin, the director of the Freeport-Leechburg-Apollo Group (FLAG). “When we were first pondering the project, we went inside and said ‘Wow — we are smitten by this building.'
“It's really a facility that's worth the elbow grease to save.”
The church, which was built in 1868, closed in 2007 because membership was down to about only 15 people.
The church has a long, rich, history in Freeport.
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