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Cranberry Community Presbyterian Church
Rochester Road, Cranberry
Township, PA
The Cranberry
United Presbyterian Church is in its second phase of a four phase project.
This office designed the original building in 1986, and has just completed
the design and construction of a $1.7 million addition that was dedicated
on Good Friday, 2000.
The original design of the church is the glass area to the right in the
lower right photograph. The new additions are to the left in the photo and
completely surround the old sanctuary. The original building had seating
for approx. 200 while the new sanctuary (an expansion of the original
sanctuary) has seating for 450.
Click the thumbnails for higher
resolution images.
  
The third phase will involve the addition of a new sanctuary seating 800,
and a large fellowship hall. The existing sanctuary will be converted to
classrooms, additional toilets and additional office area.
The current addition was designed as part of a master plan that included
the design of the third phase. This enabled the township to approve the
land use, parking, and storm water management area for the future
development so as to conserve funds during the phase three addition.
If seen from above, the final form of the building will be of a cross on a
hill. This conceptual plan was very desirable to the congregation.
Rev. Tom Thornton and his very hardworking committee were involved in
every aspect of the design and planning of this facility. The master plan
phase looked at a number of different configurations of the program before
this final configuration was settled on.
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