Philadelphia Religious Evening Walking Tour
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Trip Type: Cultural Tours
Duration: 90 minutes
Travel the cobblestone streets of Old City Philadelphia by lantern light on this 90-minute religious evening walking tour. Journey along the migrant trail, pray by the mezuzah of the Jewish History Museum, and visit Potter's Plot, wherein rests the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Other stops include the Holy Trinity Church, the Iron gates of Mother Bethel, Pine Street Presbyterian graveyard, Old St Andrew's, and Philadelphia's 1st Roman Cathedral.
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Travel the cobblestone streets of Old City Philadelphia by lantern light on this 90-minute religious evening walking tour. Journey along the migrant trail, pray by the mezuzah of the Jewish History Museum, and visit Potter's Plot, wherein rests the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Other stops include the Holy Trinity Church, the Iron gates of Mother Bethel, Pine Street Presbyterian graveyard, Old St Andrew's, and Philadelphia's 1st Roman Cathedral.
On this 90-minute guided walking tour, you'll enter into the faith story way of those who came from hunger, debtor’s prisons, and faith persecution. Travel by lantern light along the Migrant Trail as you pass through the row-house markers of the first Philadelphians. Pray by the Mezuzah of the Jewish History Museum. View the excavated remains of slave quarters and hear the hollers of colonial slave trafficking. Listen to the cry of the poor from the Potter's Plot in Washington Square, wherein rests the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
See the Moon Tree and pass by the Athenaeum. Stop at Holy Trinity, where you'll hear the rattle of the keys temporal and spiritual. Stand before the Iron Gates of Mother Bethel. Feel the presence of a Freedom Saint, Rev. Richard Allen and pray for those shackled by chains of modern slavery. Count the flags of soldiers in Pine Street Presbyterian Graveyard. Gaze at the eastern mushroom domes of Old St. Andrew's. See the marriage site of Benedict Arnold, then crossover to the home of General Thad. Koscioszko, Thomas Jefferson's best friend.
Share the story of the development of a people from Western and Eastern lungs who formed into a melting pot of a nation sealed. Pray by Philadelphia's 1st Roman Cathedral, the site of the Mass of Victory and the resting place of Constitution signer Thos. Fitzsimmons and Naval Founder John Barry.
As the tour comes to an end, return to your starting point outside the Independence Visitor Center.
On this 90-minute guided walking tour, you'll enter into the faith story way of those who came from hunger, debtor’s prisons, and faith persecution. Travel by lantern light along the Migrant Trail as you pass through the row-house markers of the first Philadelphians. Pray by the Mezuzah of the Jewish History Museum. View the excavated remains of slave quarters and hear the hollers of colonial slave trafficking. Listen to the cry of the poor from the Potter's Plot in Washington Square, wherein rests the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
See the Moon Tree and pass by the Athenaeum. Stop at Holy Trinity, where you'll hear the rattle of the keys temporal and spiritual. Stand before the Iron Gates of Mother Bethel. Feel the presence of a Freedom Saint, Rev. Richard Allen and pray for those shackled by chains of modern slavery. Count the flags of soldiers in Pine Street Presbyterian Graveyard. Gaze at the eastern mushroom domes of Old St. Andrew's. See the marriage site of Benedict Arnold, then crossover to the home of General Thad. Koscioszko, Thomas Jefferson's best friend.
Share the story of the development of a people from Western and Eastern lungs who formed into a melting pot of a nation sealed. Pray by Philadelphia's 1st Roman Cathedral, the site of the Mass of Victory and the resting place of Constitution signer Thos. Fitzsimmons and Naval Founder John Barry.
As the tour comes to an end, return to your starting point outside the Independence Visitor Center.
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