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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 Gilbert Stuart House (Historic site) 4th Streets Southeast corner of 5th and Chestnut Streets 5 Zion (Lutheran) Church (Historic site) Carpenters’ Hall Southeast corner of 4th and Cherry Streets 12 South side of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 3rd 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 7. Printing Office of Dunlap & Claypoole 13. Quaker Meeting House History Here stood the printing office of John Dunlap When the nation was founded, a Quaker Home to a 25,000 square foot core exhibition and David C. Claypoole who published the meeting house and school stood here. chronicling over 350 years of Jewish life in first public printing of the U.S. Constitution, America. two days after it was presented to the 14. St. Thomas’ African Episcopal Church Convention. A historical marker stands on the original St. 2. Religious Liberty Thomas Church, erected in 1794 by and for On Thanksgiving Day, 1876, B'nai B'rith 8. The President’s House persons of African descent. Reverend unveiled this sculpture, Religious Liberty, in Situated where Presidents George Absalom Jones became the first Episcopal honor of America’s centennial. Located in Washington and John Adams each lived priest of African descent in the Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, it remained during their administrations, the President’s U.S. and the first rector of St. Thomas’ there until 1986, when it moved to the National House also pays tribute to Washington’s nine Church. The congregation still exists today, Museum of American Jewish History's first site. enslaved Africans who lived there with him. and can be found on Lancaster Avenue in the Religious Liberty moved to its present site city’s Overbrook neighborhood. when the new museum opened in 2010. 9. The Graff House Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of 15. Mikveh Israel Cemetery 3. Historic St. George’s United Methodist Independence here. Here rest many of the founding members of Church Philadelphia’s Jewish community. This is the oldest Methodist church in 10. Independence Hall continuous use in the United States. became commander in 16. chief of the in 1775 and the Mother Bethel African Methodist 4. Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel Continental Congress adopted the Episcopal Church Philadelphia's oldest Jewish congregation Growing racial tensions at St. George’s Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, erected their first building here. A historical Methodist Church led the congregation’s in the Assembly Room of this building. In the marker for the synagogue now marks the black population to separate and form their same room, the federal convention drafted location. own congregation, Mother Bethel. the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Congregants worshipped in an old blacksmith 5. Zion (Lutheran) Church shop at this site before building this church Zion (Lutheran) Church once stood here, just 11. Gilbert Stuart House around the corner from Mikveh Israel. Here once lived of one of America’s greatest portrait painters. Gilbert Stuart painted 6. Congregation Mikveh Israel portraits of Presidents Washington, Adams, The current synagogue of this congregation, and Jefferson, among many others. founded in 1740. The National Museum of American Jewish History once shared this 12. Carpenters’ Hall building! Meeting place of the first Continental Congress, which began in 1774.