Cemeteries & Places of Worship

Historic Churches & Places of Worship

  • Arch Street Meeting House, 320 Arch Street
    • Quaker historic site/museum.
    • Dating to 1682; current building 1803-11.
  • Christ Church, 20 N. American Street – “The Nation’s Church”
    • Episcopal historic site and active congregation.
    • Founded 1695; current building dating to 1744.
  • Congregation Mikveh Israel, 44 North 4th Street – “Synagogue of the American Revolution”
    • Jewish historic congregation.
    • Dating to 1740.
  • Free Quaker Meeting House, Independence National Historical Park, 5th & Arch Streets
    • Quaker historic site/museum.
    • Dating to 1783.
  • Germantown Mennonite Meeting House / Historic Trust, 6133 Germantown Avenue (Germantown) – “Birthplace of Mennonites in America”
    • Mennonite historic site/museum.
    • Dating to 1708; building 1770.
  • Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site (Old Swedes’ Episcopal Church), 916 S. Swanson Street (South Philadelphia) – “Pennsylvania’s oldest church”
    • Episcopal historic site and active congregation (oldest in continuous existence in the US).
    • Built 1700.
  • Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church / Richard Allen Museum, 419 South 6th Street
    • African Methodist Episcopal (AME) historic site and active congregation.
    • Founded 1794; current building 1890 (oldest church property in the US continuously owned by African Americans).
  • Old Pine Street Church, 412 Pine Street – “Church of the Patriots”
    • Presbyterian historic site and active congregation.
    • Opened 1768.
  • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, 225 South 3rd Street
    • Episcopal historic site; now Episcopal Community Services.
  • Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, 313 Pine Street
    • Episcopal historic site and active congregation.
    • Opened 1761.
  • Tindley Temple United Methodist Church, 750-62 S. Broad Street (South Philadelphia)
    • Methodist Episcopal historic site and active congregation.
    • Built 1923-28.

Historic Cemeteries/Burial Grounds

  • Byberry Meeting African American Cemetery (unmarked, in Benjamin Rush State Park), 3001 Byberry Road (Northeast Philadelphia)
    • Established 1780 (by Byberry Quaker Meeting / Society of Friends).
  • Cathedral Cemetery (Old Cathedral; Catholic), 1032 North 48th Street (West Philadelphia)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery (East Cedar Hill), 5800 Frankford Avenue (Frankford)
    • Established 1850.
  • Christ Church Burial Ground (Cemetery; Episcopal), 340 North 5th Street – “America’s most historic burial grounds”
    • Established 1719. (Site of Benjamin Franklin’s grave.)
  • Fair Hill Burial Ground (Friends’ Fairhill; Quaker) / Historic Fair Hill, 2901 Germantown Avenue (Germantown)
    • Founded 1703; revived 1842.
  • Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’ Episcopal) Church Burial Ground, 916 S. Swanson Street (South Philadelphia) – “Burial ground of Patriots and ordinary citizens”
    • Church built 1700.
  • Harleigh Cemetery (Camden County Veterans Cemetery), 1640 Haddon Avenue, Camden, NJ – “Many notable burials including…Walt Whitman”
    • Established 1885.
  • Historic Eden Cemetery, 1434 Springfield Road, Collingdale, PA (slightly outside Philadelphia)
    • Opened 1902 (oldest existing Black-owned cemetery in the US).
  • Hood Cemetery (Lower Burying/Burial Ground of Germantown), 4901 Germantown Avenue (Germantown)
    • Established 1693.
  • Knights of Pythias / Greenwood Cemetery (Fraternal organization), 930 Adams Avenue (Frankford)
    • Established 1869.
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery (East; aka Central, North, South), 3822 Ridge Avenue (East Falls)
    • Founded 1836.
  • Mikveh Israel Cemetery (Spruce Street; Jewish), 831 Spruce Street – “Oldest Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia”
    • Built 1740.
  • Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery & Arboretum, 6201 Kingsessing Avenue (Southwest Philadelphia)
    • Established 1855 (largest cemetery in PA).
  • Mount Vernon Cemetery, 3499 W. Lehigh Avenue (East Falls)
    • Established 1856.
  • Mount Sinai Cemetery (Jewish) 1901 Bridge Street
    • Established 1854 (one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries still in operation in Philadelphia). (Frank Furness designed chapel.)
  • Old Pine Street Presbyterian Churchyard (aka Old Pine Street Church Graveyard; Third Presbyterian Church Burial Ground; Third, Scots, and Mariners Presbyterian Churchyard) 412 Pine Street
    • Burials began 1764.
  • Palmer Cemetery (Kensington Burial Grounds), 1410 E. Palmer Street (Fishtown)
    • Founded 1732.
  • Philadelphia National Cemetery, 6909 Limekiln Pike (Northwest Philadelphia)Established 1862.
    • National military cemetery.
  • Saint Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, 313 Pine Street
    • Church opened 1761.
  • Upper Burying Ground of Germantown (aka Upper Burial Grounds, Axe’s Burial Ground, Concord Burial Grounds), 6309 Germantown Avenue (Germantown)
    • Established 1693 (one of the oldest in the Philadelphia region).
  • The Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodland Avenue (West Philadelphia)
    • Established 1840.