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Atteridgeville was established by the government in 1939 [3] as a settlement for black people, after much lobbying by Mrs Myrtle Patricia Atteridge, the chairwoman of the Committee for Non-European Affairs on the City Council at that time. [4] Atteridgeville was established nine years prior to the election of the apartheid government
People's Baptist Church 5039 Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia City of Praise Baptist Church: 1648 West Hunting Park Avenue St. Andrews Fellowship Baptist Church: 4910 Wayne Avenue Smith Chapel Baptist Church 1828 Ridge Avenue Tacony Baptist Church 4715 Disston Street HABS PA-6692-C: Transfiguration Baptist Church 3732 Fairmount Avenue
First African Baptist Church (Philadelphia) First Baptist Church (Philadelphia) First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia) First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia; St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia) Frankford Friends Meeting House; Free Quaker Meetinghouse; French Church of St. Sauveur
The church and the cemetery eventually became the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church of Philadelphia, the oldest church in Pennsylvania. [14] In 1681, King Charles II gave Penn a large piece of his newly acquired American land holdings to repay a debt the king owed to Admiral Sir William Penn, Penn's father.
Philadelphians celebrating Independence Day on July 4, 1819. Present-day Philadelphia was formerly inhabited by Lenape, a Native American tribe. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Philadelphia was known globally for its freedom of religion and a city where people could live without fear of persecution because of their religious affiliations or practices.
According to author Patrick D. Bowen, Baker was in contact with Webb and may have run his Oriental Publishing Company from a Philadelphia post office in 1892 and 1894. [9] He was known for his lectures on Islam in Philadelphia and may also have been secretly associated with a group of about twenty Muslim converts in the city during this period ...
The Church of St. James the Less is a historic Episcopal church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, that was architecturally influential. As St. James-the-Less Episcopal Church, it was designated a National Historic Landmark [2] for its Gothic Revival architecture, which influenced a generation of subsequent churches.
Most of the settlers had a Mennonite background but joined the Quaker meeting. Sometime around 1690, several families attended non-Quaker services; the subsequently built a log church in 1708. This church was the first Mennonite Church in America. William Rittenhouse was its first minister. The log church was replaced by the present church at ...