Sacred Spaces Open House

WALKING

TOUR

Sacred Places

Open House DayInside Center City

Places of Worship

Sunday, December 16

1:00-4:00pm

Sponsored in part by

Center City Residents’ Association, the Preservation Alliance and twelveRittenhouse area houses of worship present a holiday season Sacred SpacesOpen House on Sunday, December 16, 2012, from 1 to 4 pm.

For local residents, this tour (self guided by smart phone app or hand heldmap) showcases the world-class interiors of buildings they walk past daily.For out of towners, the tour provides an amenity usu-ally only found on the continent where even the mosthumble houses of worship welcome tourists daily.Congregants at all twelve sites are available to talkabout the current activities of these historic institu-tions. This easy afternoon stroll should serve as a wel-come respite to the holiday season’s hustle andbustle.

The congregations participating are:

Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel St. Mark’s Episcopal Church18th and Spruce Streets Locust St. betw. 16th & 17thArchitect Thomas Lonsdale, 1894 Architect John Notman, 1852

Trinity Memorial Church St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church22nd and Spruce Streets 20th St betw Locust & SpruceArchitect James Sims, 1875 Architect Ballinger & Perrot, 1910-17

Tenth Presbyterian Church Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion17th and Spruce Streets Chestnut St. betw 21st and 22nd Architect John MacArthur, 1857 Architect Isaac Purcell, 1880

Pulpit by Frank Furness

First Presbyterian Church First Church of Christ, Scientist21st & Walnut Streets Pine St betw. 19th and 20thArchitect Henry A. Sims, 1872 Architect James Peacock Sims, 1874-77 Tower by Frank Furness, 1900 Frank Furness, 1892

First Unitarian Church The Shambhala Center 22nd and Chestnut Streets 2030 Sansom StreetArchitect Frank Furness, 1886

First Baptist Church Arch Street Methodist Church17th and Sansom Streets Broad and Arch StreetsArchitect Edgar Seeler, 1900 Architect Addison Hutton, 1864-68

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