Old Salem Church and Cemetery - Catonsville MD
Posted by: Don.Morfe
N 39° 17.100 W 076° 43.854
18S E 350716 N 4349832
Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of the 1849 Gothic Revival church building is a three bay, irregular stone structure.
Waymark Code: WM14Z4W
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 09/15/2021
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From Wikipedia
"Old Salem Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran Church and adjacent cemetery located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. The main part of the 1849 Gothic Revival church building is a three bay, irregular stone structure approximately 28 feet wide and 42 feet long. It features a gable roof, a short boxy steeple, an entrance porch at the front and an apse at the rear. The interior features a gallery and organ loft has the original tracker organ, which is still hand pumped by a wooden lever on the north side of the case. From early on, the ground to the south of the church was laid out as a cemetery. The church was founded by German Lutheran immigrants.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977."
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