Editing Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania (section)

==Religion==
[[File:St. Mary Church alter during the Christmas Season..jpg|left|thumb|St. Mary Church altar during the Christmas Season]]
[[File:Sharpsburg PA Presby PHS563.jpg|thumb|The Sharpsburg Presbyterian Church located at 13th and North Canal Streets, now the location of the Northern Area Multi-Service Center.]]

Located within Sharpsburg are numerous churches and other religious gathering places. Most notably, though, in the borough, is the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] community. Three churches, St. Mary Church, Madonna of Jerusalem Church, and St. John Cantius Church, form the Saint Juan Diego Parish. Bishop David Zubik of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh|Diocese of Pittsburgh]] created the parish in 2009, at the behest of the parishioners, who called for the three churches to form one parish. Saint Juan Diego, a [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] from [[Mexico]], was chosen as the name of the parish because of Sharpsburg's ties with Native Americans, specifically Guyasuta and the Senecas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://saintjuandiegopgh.org/default.aspx |title=Saint Juan Diego Parish |website=saintjuandiegopgh.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203114332/http://saintjuandiegopgh.org/default.aspx |archive-date=December 3, 2009}}</ref>

In addition, Grace Methodist Church, Mt. Olive Baptist Church, First English Lutheran Church, First Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Sharpsburg Family Worship Center call Sharpsburg home. The basement of the Mt. Olive church was the artistic inspiration to urban lyricist Mark D. Lombardi during his 1991 recording sessions of his gold album ''Locked Half Cocked and Loaded''.