Former Bethel church listed for sale
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SENTINEL PHOTO - The Bethel Primitive Methodist Church on Nov. 9, 2019.
By Kaylee Lindenmuth | [email protected]
SHENANDOAH – Another shuttered Shenandoah church is up for sale.
For sale signs are posted outside the former Bethel Primitive Methodist church at Oak and Jardin Streets, through Ramus Realty.
The 149-year-old church closed over the summer, the latest in a multitude of church closures over the past decade.
According to the listing on the Ramus Realty website, the church was first listed for sale in August with an asking price of $50,000. Yesterday, the listing was updated to reduce the asking price to $35,000.
The sale listing includes the church building and the neighboring parsonage.
”Bring your ideas,” the listing reads. “Contents of the church and parsonage will remain, being sold as-is.”
If sold, the church would be the third to close and be sold on Oak Street in the past few years. In late 2016, the Bethany First United Methodist Church at Oak and White Streets closed, and was sold shortly after to another congregation, Divine Power of Christ.
Last month, officials with the Diocese of Allentown said that they had an agreement of sale on the St. Stephen’s Church building and hall at Oak and Main Streets, prompting the removal of statues, crosses, and the relocation of a polling place and other events. According to the Schuylkill County Parcel Locator, the owner remains the diocese.
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