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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.
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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 Hendrickson House is part of Old Swedes Historic Site, which includes Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) (1698–99) and burial ground (1638), a National Historic Landmark. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] See also
St. James Kingsessing, commonly called "Old Swedes," is an historic American church located at 68th Street and Woodland Avenue in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the churches created by settlers and descendants of the Delaware Valley colony of New Sweden , a colony planted by the Swedish South Company ...
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Philadelphia, Old City: 1720–1830 Houses Claimed to be the nation's oldest residential street; two rows of Federal and Georgian brick houses built between 1720 and 1830, with a total of 32 extant houses [8] Wyck House: Philadelphia, Germantown: c. 1700–20, later additions House Stenton: Philadelphia, Germantown: 1723 House
Following this, the organization pursued an effort to have Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church recognized as a National Historic Landmark, a designation that it achieved in 1946, being the first American religious building to do so. In 2003, the Society sponsored the Rambo Apple Project, designed to bring the Rambo apple tree species back to Sweden ...