St. Michael Church

The history of Archangel Michael Orthodox Church bears the common thread that brought the masses of Eastern European people to the American shores in the late 19th century, the dream of a better life. Slavic people from central Europe, the eastern European heartland of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, the present day countries of Czechoslovakia and southwestern Ukraine, immigrated to Western Pennsylvania looking for a new life and economic opportunity. The coal fields of the Allegheny Highlands ...