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Swedish settlers founded the first Christian church within what is now Philadelphia here in 1677, originally holding religious services in a log blockhouse. The present edifice was erected in 1698-1703 and dedicated on June 2, 1700. In 1845 the congregation was received into the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. On November 17, 1942, this site was designated as a national historic shrine commemorating the cultural and religious aspects of Swedish colonization in America.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
