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    Gloria Dei Church, known locally as Old Swedes', is a historic church located in the Southwark neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 929 South...
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    time. All are generally known as "Old Swedes" and later joined the Episcopal Church. Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia was founded in 1697...
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  • Old Swedes' Church may refer to: Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) in Wilmington, Delaware Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    River waterfront at Front and Carpenter Streets, just west of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church. Supplies of lead shot were imported from Europe before the...
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    Philadelphia in 1669. It was later used as a church until about 1700, when Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church of Philadelphia was built on the site. The start...
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  • Sven Svensson (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    Philadelphia. They were left with 230 acres apiece. The site of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church had previously been donated by Sven Gunnarsson in 1677. In...
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  • Peter Gunnarsson Rambo (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    Rambo died in 1698 and was buried at the Swedes' log church at Wicaco, now Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Southwark, Philadelphia. He was survived...
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    George Ord (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    Ord died on January 23, 1866, and is buried in a family plot at Gloria Dei Church cemetery. Ord, G. 1817. Account of a North American quadruped, supposed...
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    Franklin Court Friends Hospital Founder's Hall, Girard College Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church Independence Hall Independence National Historical Park Laurel...
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    Alexander Wilson (ornithologist) (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    report. He was buried in Philadelphia, in the cemetery at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') church. The two final volumes of American Ornithology were completed...
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    to the site to generate a cost estimate for the job. In December 1935, an old rock quarry was reopened to the west of the site to provide the stones needed...
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    Revolutionary War. Gloria Dei (Old Swedes' Church), second oldest church building, built in 1700 (Lutheran/Episcopal) Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church, founded...
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    the Second Bank of the United States, Fort Mifflin, and the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church. Philadelphia alone has 67 National Historic Landmarks, the...
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    William Irvine (general) (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    family papers, pp. 29, 47 Historic Gloria Dei (Old Swedes' Preservation Corporation Gloria Old Swedes Cemetery, Dei Burial Ground, Pennsylvania Butterfield...
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  • Sven Gunnarsson (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    land was home to the first log church in the area, built in 1677, today known as the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church. Sven Gunnarsson died in 1678 and...
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    period is Old Swedes' Church (Gloria Dei) at Christian Street and Columbus Boulevard. Originally built as a block-house against the Lenape, the church was completed...
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    at the church. The church and the cemetery eventually became the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church of Philadelphia, the oldest church in Pennsylvania. Penn...
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  • George Ord Sr. (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    Eric Nordenlind, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church (commonly called Gloria Dei, or Old Swedes' Church) on the Delaware River. George and Rebecca resided...
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  • in Breezewood and an overpass on Pump Station Road near the site of the old Cove Valley Travel Plaza. The demolition of the overpasses removed the liability...
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  • Amandus Johnson (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664 (1911) The Swedes in America 1638-1900: Vol. I, The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664. (1914) Johan Classon Rising:...
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    construction of the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church, the oldest surviving building in Philadelphia, began. Construction of the church was completed in 1700...
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    James Peale (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    Peale died in Philadelphia on May 24, 1831, and is buried at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church cemetery along with this wife and six children. Still Life...
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  • living northeast of Darby Creek built a new log church at Wicaco (now Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church) and invited Jacob Fabritius to be their pastor...
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    Germantown White House (formerly the Deshler-Morris House) Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church National Historic Site Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial...
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  • Following this, the organization pursued an effort to have Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church recognized as a National Historic Landmark, a designation that...
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    Neziner Congregation (category Church buildings converted to a different denomination)
    brotherhood service with Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church. They held one in 1947 and again in 1949. Neziner joined Goria Dei Old Swedes in February 1954 to...
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  • Andreas Rudman (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    pioneer Swedish-American Lutheran minister. He was pastor of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia. Anders Rudman was born in Gävle, Gästrikland...
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    Sarah Miriam Peale (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    never married. She died in 1885, aged 85. She is buried at the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. Several paintings by Peale were...
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  • Israel Helm (category Burials at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church)
    December 5, 2015. Peter Stebbins Craig (Fall 2001). "Chronology of Colonial Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1713". Swedish Colonial News, Volume 2, Number 5. Retrieved...
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    original on December 6, 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2008. "Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes)". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived...
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