Downtown Cedartown's houses of worship reflect the city's religious and civic development from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. First Baptist Church was established along Tanyard Branch in 1835, then moved to a sanctuary built in 1845 on land donated by Asa Prior and William West; that building later became the Baugh Opera House after a new gothic-revival sanctuary was constructed at Grace and College Streets in 1891, and the former church yard was gradually redeveloped with storefronts by the 1930s. The local Presbyterian Church organized in 1853, established a home in Cedartown in 1873, and built a Romanesque revival sanctuary and manse on Herbert Street in 1889 before relocating in 1963, after which the sanctuary was torn down to extend Philpot Street to Ware Street. The Methodist church organized near the Big Spring in 1850, built a gothic style sanctuary at College Street and Wissahickon Avenue in 1871, and replaced it with the current structure in 1953. St. James Episcopal Church, built in 1883 at Bradford Street and West Avenue, is the oldest church building in downtown Cedartown; it was established through the efforts of the wife of Amos G. West, and West helped fund the Carpenter's Gothic sanctuary. St. Bernadette's Catholic Church was established in 1935 at College Street and East Avenue, and its existing building was built in 1941.