Main entry:

Faris, John T. (John Thomson), 1871-1949, author.

Title & Author:

Old churches and meeting houses in and around Philadelphia / by John T. Faris ... with frontispiece in color and 73 doubletone illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. ; London, : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926.

Description:

2 preliminary leaves, iii-xv. leaves 260. [1] pages : color frontispiece, 1 illustration, plates ; 23 cm

Notes:
I. Trying days at Old St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church, Philadelphia ... -- II. Glimpses of Friends and Friends' meetings in Philadelphia ... -- III. St. Mary's church, Burlington, New Jersey ... -- IV. Four Presbyterian churches in Delaware ... -- V. The beginnings of the Protestant Episcopal church at Swedesboro, New Jersey ... -- VI. Three old churches in Germantown ... -- VII. The tale of three Presbyterian congregations in Philadelphia ... -- VIII. Christ church, Philadelphia, birthplace of the American Protestant Episcopal church ... -- IX. The glorious beginning of the Reformed church in America ... -- X. How Norriton church became historic ... -- XI. The first Baptist church in Philadelphia ... -- XII. The beginnings of four Protestant Episcopal churches ... -- XIII. Among the Friends northeast of Philadelphia ... -- XIV. How Maidenhead and Trenton, New Jersey, were linked ... -- XV. How the Moravians came to have a church in Philadelphia ... -- XVI. Gloria Dei, the church built by the Swedes in Philadelphia ... -- XVII. Among the New Jersey Friends ... -- XVIII. How Great Valley Presbyterian church passed through the centuries ... -- XIX. The brilliant career of St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran churches ... -- XX. Friends from Chester to Wilmington and Birmingham ... -- XXI. At Middletown and Forks of Brandywine ... -- XXII. Ten Evangelical Lutheran churches ... -- XXIII. Two centuries with the Merion Friends ... -- XXIV. Trappe, the oldest Lutheran church in America ... -- XXV. Neshaminy of Warwick, the church of the log college ... -- XXVI. Intimate glimpses of Germantown meeting ... -- XXVII. The twin churches of Church road ... -- XXVIII. In Germantown and Frankford ... -- XXIX. St. George's church, the cradle of American Methodism ... -- XXX. Old St. David's church at Radnor ... -- XXXI. Early days of Fagg's Manor ... -- XXXII. Four suburban Protestant Episcopal churches ... -- XXXIII. The rise and fall of the Free Quakers ... -- XXXIV. The ups and downs of three provincial churches ... -- XXXV. The stormy beginnings of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Philadelphia ... -- XXXVI. Three churches between Philadelphia and the Falls of the Delaware ... -- XXXVII. How St. James', Kingsessing, and Christ church, Upper Merion, became Episcopal organizations.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Church buildings Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Church buildings.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 68929
Call No.: 587; ID:86-B10473
Status: Available