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CHESTNUT 10 12 13 11 Take the To Bigotry No Sanction Walking Tour! Visit sites SANSOM 17 with connections to artifacts in NMAJH’s exhibition, all right WALNUT here, in historic . Additional tours available at 14 many of the sites: please check tour days and times with LOCUST 15 each institution. Sites can be visited in any order. The SPRUCE farthest sites on the map are about a 15-minute walk from the museum. PINE 16 LOMBARD

1 National Museum of American Jewish History 7 Printing Office of Dunlap & Claypoole 14 St. Thomas’ African Episcopal Church (Historic site) Southeast corner of 5th and Market Streets Southeast corner of 2nd and Market Streets Southwest side of 5th street, near St. James Court (between Walnut and Locust Streets) 2 Statue of Religious Liberty 8 The President’s House On the Sidney and Caroline Kimmel Plaza outside Southeast corner of 6th and Market Streets 15 Mikveh Israel Cemetery the National Museum of American Jewish History North side of Spruce Street, between 8th and 9th Streets 9 The Graff House 3 Historic St. George’s United Methodist Church Southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets 16 Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Corner of 4th and New Streets Church 10 Northeast corner of 6th and Lombard Streets 4 Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel (Historic site) Chestnut Street, between 5th and 6th Streets North side of Cherry Street between 3rd and 11 Carpenters’ Hall 17 American Philosophical Society 4th Streets South side of Chestnut Street, between 4th West side of 5th street, south of Chestnut Street 5 Zion (Lutheran) Church (Historic site) and 3rd Streets Southeast corner of 4th and Cherry Streets 12 Gilbert Stuart House (Historic site) Southeast corner of 5th and Chestnut Streets 6 Congregation Mikveh Israel Between 4th and 5th streets, between Market 13 Quaker Meeting House (Historic site) and Arch Streets Entrance on 4th Street, south of Chestnut Street 1. National Museum of American Jewish History – 7. Printing Office of Dunlap & Claypoole – 13. Quaker Meeting House – Home to the special exhibition To Bigotry No Sanction: Here stood the printing In 1789, the Quaker Yearly and Religious Freedom, not to office of John Dunlap Meeting composed a letter mention a 25,000 square foot core exhibition chronicling and David C. Claypoole to George Washington from over 350 years of Jewish life in America. who published the first the meeting house that stood public printing of the U.S. here. A draft of that letter is on 2. Religious Liberty – Constitution, two days after view in To Bigotry No Sanction On Thanksgiving Day, 1876, Jewish artist Moses it was presented to the alongside Washington’s reply. Ezekiel unveiled his sculpture Religious Liberty in honor Convention. This is on view of America’s centennial. Located in Philadelphia’s in To Bigotry No Sanction. 14. St. Thomas’ African Episcopal Church – Fairmount Park, it remained there until the 1976, when A historical marker stands on the original St. Thomas the first home of the National Museum of American 8. The President’s House – Church, erected in 1794 by and for persons of Jewish History opened. Religious Liberty moved to its Situated where Presidents African descent. Reverend Absalom Jones became present site when the new museum opened in 2010. George Washington and John the first Episcopal priest of African descent in the Adams each lived during their administrations, the U.S. and the first rector of St. Thomas’ Church. President’s House also pays tribute to Washington’s 3. Historic St. George’s United Methodist Church – The congregation still exists today, and can be nine enslaved Africans who lived there with him. Francis Asbury, one of the co-authors of the letter to found on Lancaster Avenue in the city’s Overbrook George Washington on behalf of the bishops of the 9. The Graff House – neighborhood. Methodist Episcopal Church, served as a pastor at St. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of 15. Mikveh Israel Cemetery – George’s. Independence here. Here rest many of the founding 4. Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel – 10. Independence Hall – members of Philadelphia’s Jewish From the synagogue erected George Washington became commander in chief of community, among them Rachel here in 1782, congregant Manuel the in 1775 and the Continental and Manuel Josephson, whose Josephson sent an address on Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence portraits are on view in, To Bigotry behalf of the Jewish communities on July 4, 1776, in the Assembly Room of this building. No Sanction. in Philadelphia, New York, In the same room, the federal convention drafted the Richmond, and Charleston to U.S. Constitution in 1787. A version of the Declaration 16. Mother Bethel African George Washington. A historical printed one week after its signing, and the first public Methodist Episcopal Church – marker for the synagogue now printing of the Constitution can be seen in To Bigotry Growing racial tensions at St. George’s Methodist marks the location. No Sanction. Church led the congregation’s black population to separate and form their own congregation, Mother 5. Zion (Lutheran) Church – 11. Carpenters’ Hall – Bethel. Congregants worshipped in an old blacksmith Zion (Lutheran) Church once stood here, just Meeting place of the first Continental Congress, which shop at this site before building this church. around the corner from Mikveh Israel. The church began in 1774. held an official memorial service for George 17. American Philosophical Society – 12. Gilbert Stuart House – Washington in 1799. William Penn’s 1701 Charter of Privileges for the Here once lived of one of colony of , the first assertion of religious America’s greatest portrait 6. Congregation Mikveh Israel – liberty in an American “constitutional” document, is on painters. A stunning Gilbert The current synagogue of this congregation, founded in view here. Stuart “Athenaeum-type” portait 1740. The National Museum of American Jewish History of Washington, on loan from the once shared this building! Philadelphia Museum of Art, is included in To Bigotry No Sanction.