{"id":273398,"date":"2026-08-27T18:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273398\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:54:14","slug":"demolition-begins-on-pittsburgh-church-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273398\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition begins on Pittsburgh church destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Crews have begun demolishing what\u2019s left of a Pittsburgh church that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/smoke-billows-out-church-mt-washington\/WJ7PL6SJWRFB3LQ6P7JF7MCXBA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/smoke-billows-out-church-mt-washington\/WJ7PL6SJWRFB3LQ6P7JF7MCXBA\/\">went up in flames<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-smoke-billows\/LECVBS4FZZHF3M35KX5IFUNQ4U\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-smoke-billows\/LECVBS4FZZHF3M35KX5IFUNQ4U\/\">&gt;&gt;&gt; PHOTOS: Smoke billows from church in Pittsburgh &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The former Grandview United Presbyterian Church on Grandview Avenue was mostly destroyed by a fire July 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/9-story-high-rise-planned-site-mt-washington-church-though-some-neighbors-not-sold\/QNMFSP32QFGMVIPTJFUOIXOPOI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/9-story-high-rise-planned-site-mt-washington-church-though-some-neighbors-not-sold\/QNMFSP32QFGMVIPTJFUOIXOPOI\/\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 11 previously reported<\/a> that developers have proposed demolishing the church and constructing a residential building on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/abandoned-church-fire-renews-concern-among-mt-washington-neighbors\/TLDDO2LBZFC3HO6KPXYGAKOENA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/abandoned-church-fire-renews-concern-among-mt-washington-neighbors\/TLDDO2LBZFC3HO6KPXYGAKOENA\/\">Abandoned church fire renews concern among Mt. Washington neighbors<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">We were the first at the scene Thursday as construction crews started tearing down the old church. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/least-2-hurt-crash-involving-garbage-truck-turtle-creek\/JZJ4GJKFUBFIBBYXSXDOGRGRE4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">At least 2 hurt in crash involving garbage truck in Turtle Creek<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/coroner-called-crash-route-119-fayette-county\/FDWJWBUNDBHRNCZCNN57Q4UFN4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">23-year-old killed in crash on Route 119 in Fayette County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/woman-beaten-robbed-downtown-pittsburgh-police-search-2-suspects\/HGKUL3PUUBCETMJ4NXZ775QFPM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman beaten, robbed in Downtown Pittsburgh; police search for 2 suspects<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/wpxi-launching-band-together-initiative-back-school\/KG55XLWAVNCLNAIULE6RIT23BY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPXI launching \u2018Band Together\u2019 initiative for back to school<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/authorities-searching-pickup-truck-involved-deadly-hit-and-run-fayette-county\/BBUMJFOH7JHTVOZQUFZQ5DYYPA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suspect in deadly hit-and-run in Fayette County in custody<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Crews have begun demolishing what\u2019s left of a Pittsburgh church that went up in flames last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14312,39566,422,114997,102473,114994,114996,114998,7525,114992,114993,114991,114995,114990,15712,73,83266,110805,96957,75,32160,74],"class_list":["post-273398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-church","tag-church-fire","tag-fire","tag-grandveiw-avenue-development","tag-grandview-avenue","tag-grandview-avenue-church-fire","tag-grandview-avenue-fire","tag-grandview-avenue-housing","tag-mount-washington","tag-mount-washington-church","tag-mount-washington-church-fire","tag-mount-washington-development","tag-mount-washington-fire","tag-mount-washington-housing","tag-mt-washington","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-church","tag-pittsburgh-church-fire","tag-pittsburgh-development","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-housing","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}