We bring true authenticity to this neighborhood.” On July 25, clergy from five historic Philadelphia congregations assembled at Gloria Dei Old Swedes Church in Queen Village to talk about their ...

a historic church in South Philadelphia is holding a gravestone cleaning event to celebrate and preserve history. Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church, near Front and Christian streets, was ...

The church in question is Christ Church (Old Swedes), Upper Merion ... with the settlers spreading out to Philadelphia in succeeding years. Between 1655 and 1675, the book reveals, the Swedes ...

The oldest church in Philadelphia is Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church, at Water Street in Queen Village was founded by Swedish settlers in 1677. Additionally, the northwest corner of Chestnut and ...

Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Episcopal Church in Philadelphia’s Queen Village neighborhood is both Pennsylvania’s oldest surviving brick building and oldest church. Established in 1646 as a Swedish ...

This year, Old Swedes will celebrate its 325th anniversary ... in and near Delaware Philadelphia has Christ Church, where the founding fathers came together to pray while deciding how to build ...

A nearly 350-year-old cemetery in South Philly ... The gravesites at the oldest church in Pennsylvania go back as far as 1677, predating Philadelphia itself. MORE: Sabrina Carpenter discusses ...