SS. Peter and Paul Church

The history of SS. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church begins during the period of the Russian Revolution and the years immediately prior to the Great War.  Many Slavic immigrants came to the Berlin, Pa., area to work in the active Bituminous Coal fields.  The Pine Hill Coal Company, like all coal companies at the time, regularly enticed Slavic families with the assurances of a better life in the new world. The spiritual development of these new immigrants was placed in the hands of Fr. John Komar, wh...