Friendship Neighborhood

Friendship is a neighborhood that the local definition differs significantly from the official city-designated neighborhood. The latter is a tiny neighborhood, only a handful of residential blocks bookended by commercial areas, and it doesn’t even include Friendship Park. It is a dense neighborhood characterized by large, closely packed 2 1/2 story homes, many of which have been divided into multiple units. This characterization, “active, but changed,” applies to the one religious site from the 1926 directory as well as the neighborhood’s housing.

Neighborhood Statistics (Out of 70 in this Series)

• 69th largest by acreage
• 63rd highest number of religious sites (multi-way tie)
• 41st most sites/acre

Locations

The map below shows the locations of the 1 congregations listed in the 1926 directory for Friendship (the dotted line marks the neighborhood boundary).

What are they now?

The table below matches the 1 congregations listed in the 1926 directory with the current use of the site.

1926 Congregation Name	By 2026 the Congregation’s Building is:
Fourth Presbyterian Church	changed to a different religious institution

Photos

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For more on this series, visit our introductory post.

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Sources:

Polk’s Pittsburgh City Directory, 1926. Pittsburgh: R. L. Polk & Co. https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735056286846/viewer#page/4/mode/1up