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The Christian Street Historic District is an historic district located along Christian Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] : 5 It is also known as Black Doctors' Row . [1] : 221 The narrow district extends approximately six city blocks , from the 1400 block of Christian Street to the intersection of Christian Street with ...
Colonial History. Jewish traders have operated in southeastern Pennsylvania since at least the 1650s. [1] The first Jewish resident of the city on record was Jonas Aaron whose name appears in 1703 in the American Historical Register. Several Jewish families had immigrated to Philadelphia by 1734, as recorded by German traveler von Beck who ...
923 Christian Street Saint Peter the Apostle 1019 North 5th Street (at Girard Avenue) National Shrine of Saint John Neumann: National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia: 1166 S Broad Street Saint Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church 608 Welsh Road St. William Church: 6200 Rising Sun Avenue Stella Maris Catholic Church: 2901 S 10th Street
The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and during the American Revolution was the site of the First and Second ...
Coordinates: 39°56′25″N 75°10′11″W. First African Baptist Church, 16th & Christian, with historical marker in the foreground. Built in 1906. Designated on the National Historical Register. The First African Baptist Church is a church located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania founded in 1809. It was the first African American Baptist ...
December 17, 1954 [3] Christ Church is an Episcopal church in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1695 as a parish of the Church of England, it played an integral role in the founding of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. In 1785, its rector, William White, became the first ...
YMCA Philadelphia. / 39.95472°N 75.16472°W / 39.95472; -75.16472. YMCA Philadelphia, also Greater Philadelphia YMCA was founded on June 15, 1854, by George H. Stuart, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and importer. The goal of the Association was to reach "the many thousands of neglected youth not likely to be brought under any ...
Old Pine Street Church, May 2, 2016. Old Pine is now the only remaining Presbyterian building in Philadelphia from before the American Revolutionary War. Continuing its more than 200 years of community activism, Old Piners were among the first to respond to the problem of the homeless. [citation needed]