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.[2]
Old Salem Church and Cemetery | |
Location | 701 Ingleside Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°16′14″N 76°44′09″W / 39.27056°N 76.73583°W |
Area | 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) |
Built | 1849 |
Architect | Moessmeringer, Johann |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 77000683[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 13, 1977 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]