Throughout the City of Delphos, one can see steeples of all kinds of churches peeking out across the skyline - and perhaps one of the oldest of those churches is Delphos Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church.
The current church has been a part of the Delphos community since 1881, and might be a little overwhelming to newcomers with its size.
"The first church was 100 feet long and they wanted to lengthen it, so it this one is 192 feet, and the nave from one side to the other it is 78 feet and this part of the sanctuary it is 88 feet," said Mary Beth Will, the Liturgy Coordinator for St. John's.
Of course, the church has seen some changes and renovations since it was first built - there was a major $2.4 million renovation in 1998 where much of the church interior and exterior was changed to what people can see today, and a lot of the old stayed with the new.
"We kept everything from the renovation that we could; when he renovated we can have a communion rail and arranged it to be the perimeter around the tabernacle area and we restored the stations," Will said.
Keeping the church in line with its history was something that much of the congregation wanted to see with the renovations.
"They're very happy that we have had so much of the old one when we renovated - it was such a great fear that things are going to be moved out of the way or that we wouldn't use them, but we've actually used almost everything that we have," said Will.
Recently, visitors from Germany who share family ties with the original settlers of Delphos came to see the church and share their collective history.
"The history was the origin of the whole thing because the first visitors that came from Delphos to Germany were looking for their history in Germany, and we have come back to see our history here because we did not know about it," said Frithjof Meissner, one of the visitors from Germany.
