Editing Medina, New York (section)

=== Religion ===
Over the years Medina has been home to many different populations. St. John's Episcopal Church was the first church in Medina, consecrated in 1828.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|title=Medina, Here's to Our Heritage|last=Grinnell|first=E.W.|publisher=Medina Area Historical Society|year=1996|pages=269–282}}</ref> In the following decade, the First United Presbyterian, First Baptist, United Methodist, and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churches were built. German immigrants started arriving in the 1880s and 1890s and built Trinity Evangelical Lutheran and St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran.<ref name=":5" />

At the turn of the century, the Polish community had grown so large that they built Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ Church in 1910.<ref name=":5" /> In 1930, the African American community built Glad Tidings Missionary Baptist Church.<ref name=":5" /> Grace Baptist Church, an offshoot from another local Baptist church in Shelby, was built next.<ref name=":5" />

More recently the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Fountain of Love, the Islamic Center, Calvary Tabernacle Assembly of God, Grace Covenant, Holiness Pentecostal, and Morning Star of God in Christ have opened.<ref name=":5" /> The Church of God Pentecostal purchased the former United Methodist Church in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://orleanshub.com/bell-in-historic-medina-church-removed/|title=Bell in Historic Medina Church Removed|last=Rivers|first=Tom|website=OrleansHub|access-date=February 22, 2018}}</ref> In 2017, the Akron Free Methodist Church leased the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church and began having services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://orleanshub.com/church-from-akron-will-reopen-former-sacred-heart-site-in-medina-for-services/|title=Church from Akron will Reopen Former Sacred Heart Site in Medina for Services|last=Rivers|first=Tom|website=OrleansHub|access-date=February 22, 2018}}</ref>  Of the 15+ churches and religious institutions that have operated in Medina, 11 are still in the village.

Medina is featured in ''[[Ripley's Believe it or Not|Ripley's Believe It or Not]]'' for St. John's Episcopal Church, known as the "Church in the Middle of the Road".<ref>[http://wikimapia.org/6192626/Saint_John_s_Episcopal_Church_in_the_Middle_of_the_Road Saint John's Episcopal - Church in the Middle of the Road]</ref>[[File:ChurchInTheMiddleOfTheRoad.jpg|thumb|150px|"Church In The Middle of the Street" made of Medina Sandstone]]