Old Salem Church and Cemetery | |
Location: | 701 Ingleside Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 39.2706°N -76.7358°W |
Built: | 1849 |
Architect: | Moessmeringer, Johann |
Architecture: | Late Gothic Revival |
Added: | December 13, 1977 |
Refnum: | 77000683 |
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.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.