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By the mid-1750s, Philadelphia's Christ Church was becoming overcrowded. About 60 parishioners organized themselves into a committee, headed by Colonel Jacob Duché Sr., to build a new church. St. Peter's was founded in 1758 in newly settled Society Hill with the first service held on September 4, 1761.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown is a historic church at 6000 Wayne Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1873 to the designs of Furness & Hewitt .
HABS PA-6692-B: St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi Church: 712 Montrose Street St. Mary's: 248 South 4th Street St. Michael's Church: 1445 North 2nd Street St. Monica Parish Church: 2422 South 17th Street Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church: 1718 South 9th Street Saint Paul Church: 923 Christian Street Saint Peter the Apostle 1019 North 5th Street (at ...
St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley is a historic Episcopal church in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb. The church was founded in 1704 as a missionary parish of the Church of England in what was then the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. [2] The parish is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
2319 S. 3rd St, Philadelphia Founded in 1896 [128] Sacred Heart of Jesus 1404 S. 3rd St, Philadelphia Founded in 1871, current church dedicated in 1976 [129] St. Agnes-St. John Nepomucene 4th and Brown Sts, Philadelphia St. Agnes (1907) and St. John Nepomucene (1902) were both founded for Slovak immigrants. The two parishes; merged in 1980. [130]
The National Shrine of St. John Neumann is a Roman Catholic National shrine dedicated to St. John Neumann, the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia and the first American male to be canonized. The shrine is located in the lower church of St. Peter the Apostle Church at 1019 North 5th Street, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The ...
Chancel c. 1903, prior to addition of the apse Basilica interior Basilica dome. With its grand façade, vaulted dome, ornate main altar, eight side chapels and main sanctuary that comfortably holds 2,000 worshippers, the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul is the largest brownstone structure and one of the most architecturally notable structures in the city of Philadelphia.
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