WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Dedicated in 1894, St. John the Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The church has five buildings: The ...

A pristine blue sky provided the perfect backdrop to Manayunk’s St. John the Baptist Church ... was designed by renowned church architect Patrick Keely and opened on April 1,1894. It is the only ...

and a site was chosen to serve the Philadelphia and Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton areas. According to the plan, St. John the Baptist Church and its school-rectory-convent-cemetery complex would be ...