St. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church — Current Overcrowded Congregation Home
St. Peter and Paul’s Orthodox Christian Church has outgrown its Salt Lake City home — a converted 1903 synagogue — and after more than three years of searching, the congregation has landed on a new site in Kearns where it plans to build a church built for its own growing numbers.
The parish will temporarily use a former meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kearns while it builds a new structure on the attached lot, according to KSL. That new building is expected to hold between 800 and 1,000 parishioners, a dramatic leap from the standing-room-only sanctuary the congregation currently packs into every Sunday…