Sacred Sites of Center City

Sacred Sites of Center City: A Guide to Philadelphia's Historic Churches, Synagogues and Meetinghouses / Photography by Tom Crane / 28 pages, saddle-stitched / 5.5" x 10.5" / ISBN 978-1-58988-042-9 / Publication Date: April 2008 Read an excerpt (pdf) Center City Philadelphia contains a concentration and diversity of religious places unmatched by any other area of similar size in the country. Sacred Sites of Center City describes the history and architecture of these landmarks. The guide includes color photographs of each building and offers five walking tours that enable the visitor to experience the neighborhood environments in which these distinctive properties are located. Two churches located in the commercial shopping district are also included. William Penn described the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment." Central to that experiment was freedom of worship for all religions, something unavailable in any other part of the British Empire at that ti