Holy City Church Tour of Charleston

Sightseeing  :  United States  :  South Carolina  :  Charleston  :  Historical & Heritage Tours

Charleston is home to some of the oldest Christian and Jewish congregations in the country. Join your guide, Evans Byrd as you explore the different faiths and their historic houses of worship, from the oldest Baptist Church in the nation founded in 1682, to the Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, home of the oldest continuous Jewish congregation in America.Founded in 1670, Charleston, SC, is known as the “Holy City” because it guaranteed religious liberty to settlers under the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. Because of this document, people from all over Europe flocked to Charleston to escape religious persecution. The Holy City Church Tour is a unique historic 2½ hour walking tour with a focus on Charleston’s different faiths and their historic houses of worship, from the oldest Baptist Church in the nation founded in 1682, to the Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, home of the oldest continuous Jewish congregation in America.

This Holy City South Tour includes:

• St. Mary’s of the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church
• Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue*
• Trinity Methodist Church
• Saint Johannes Lutheran Church
• Church of the Redeemer
• Saint Philips Episcopal Church
• The French Huguenot Church
• The Circular Congregational Church
• Saint Michaels Episcopal Church

We also explore the graveyards which are the final resting places of people who played an integral role in American history including:

• John Rutledge, signer of the United States Constitution
• Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• John C Calhoun, great statesman and former Vice President of the United States