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Holy Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes, is a historic church at East 7th and Church Street in Wilmington, Delaware. It was consecrated on Trinity Sunday, June 4, 1699, by a predominantly Swedish congregation formerly of the colony of New Sweden. [3] The church is among the few surviving public buildings that reflect the Swedish colonial ...
Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) O. Old St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church; S. St. Mary Anne's Episcopal Church; T. Trinity Church (Swedesboro, New Jersey) ...
Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes' Church, is a historic church on the northwest corner of Church Street and King's Highway in Swedesboro in Gloucester County, New Jersey, U.S. The congregation was founded as a Swedish Lutheran parish in 1703, after local residents tired of crossing the Delaware River or Philadelphia to worship. The ...
He donated £320 for the purchase of land and for the construction of the Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) (completed in 1699), including £220 in loans and £100 as a gift, receiving in return use of the best pews, [16] and the promise that he and his wife would be buried within the church. [17]
Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) Wilmington, Delaware: DE 1698 Lutheran/Episcopal Oldest Swedish Church in the United States Great Friends Meeting House: Newport, Rhode Island: RI 1699 Quaker (Friends) Quaker Meeting House, oldest surviving church in Rhode Island Gloria Dei (Old Swedes' Church) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: PA 1700 Lutheran/Episcopal
1655 - Fort taken from Swedes by Dutch forces of Peter Stuyvesant. [1] 1664 - English in power. [1] 1682 - New Sweden becomes part of the English colonial Province of Pennsylvania. [1] 1698 - Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) built. [1] 1731 - Landowner Thomas Willing names his property "Willingtown" (renamed "Wilmington" around 1739). [1] 1739
Old Swedes' Church may refer to: Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) in Wilmington, Delaware; Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; St. James Kingsessing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is often called "Old Swedes" Trinity Church (Old Swedes' Church) in Swedesboro, New Jersey
Gloria Dei Church, known locally as Old Swedes ', is a historic church located in the Southwark neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 929 South Water Street, bounded by Christian Street on the north, South Christopher Columbus Boulevard (formerly Delaware Avenue) on the east, and Washington Avenue on the south.