Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church

Holy Ghost Church was founded by 112 Carpetho-Rusin immigrants who had come to America lured by the promise of work in the mines of Northeast Pennsylvania.  Carpetho-Rusins come from a mountainous region known as Carpetho-Ruthenia nestled between present-day Slovakia and Ukraine.  United by a desire for a local Byzantine Catholic Church, they purchased three plots of land on First Avenue in Jessup and constructed a wood-framed church.  The church was dedicated in 1899 under the patronage of the Holy Ghost.