St. George Orthodox Church (New Kensington, PA)

Service Times
Saturday: Great Vespers 6pm
Sunday: Orthros 9am, Divine Liturgy 10am

St. George was founded in the early 1900’s by immi­grants who came from the Mid­dle East, the same region as that scrip­tural Anti­och. As they set­tled in the Allegheny Val­ley they brought with them their faith, which was unique and some­times strange to those used to West­ern Chris­t­ian expres­sions. In 1912 Bishop, now Saint, Raphael (Hawaweeny) con­se­crated the altar of St. George, then res­i­dent on Ken­neth Street in New Kens­ing­ton. As the Church grew under the pas­toral guid­ance of the priests and Bish­ops, first those who moved to Amer­ica from the Mid­dle East and then Amer­i­can born ones, the need for a larger place of wor­ship grew also. In the 1950’s the cur­rent church tem­ple was built and the con­gre­ga­tion, in solemn pro­ces­sion, moved the relics of the saints form their first home to their new one, 1150 Leish­man Ave.

St. George has always been a com­mit­ted mem­ber of the New Kens­ing­ton com­mu­nity both civilly and spir­i­tu­ally. Together with our Ortho­dox broth­ers and sis­ters at the Church of the Annun­ci­a­tion (Greek), St. John the Bap­tist (OCA) and Holy Vir­gin (Ukrain­ian) it is our mis­sion to ful­fill Christ’s Great Com­mis­sion: “Make dis­ci­ples of all the nations, bap­tiz­ing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teach­ing them all that I have com­manded you; lo I am with you to the close of the age. Amen.” (Matthew 28: 19–20)