The churches of Philadelphia are numerous and diverse. Founded by William Penn to celebrate religious freedom, Philadelphia has many historic and significant churches, among many smaller and newer ones.

African Methodist Episcopal Church Image Church Location Notes Allen A.M.E. Church 5901 Larchwood Avenue Alleyne Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church 1249 North 55th Street Hickman Temple A.M.E. Church 5001 Baltimore Avenue Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church 419 South 6th Streeta.k.a. 419 Richard Allen Avenue Waters Memorial A.M.E. Church 609 South Clifton Street Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church 1500 Lombard Street Wharton Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church 5339 Catharine Street

Armenian Apostolic Church Image Church Location Notes Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church 8701 Ridge Avenue

Baptist Image Church Location Notes Chestnut Street Baptist Church and Ternacle Baptist Church 4017 Chestnut Street Christian Stronghold Church 4701 Lancaster Avenue Church of the Redeemer Baptist 1440 South 24th Street First Immanuel Baptist Church 2438 Ridge Avenue Forty Sixth Street Baptist Church 1261–1265 South 46th Street Glory Baptist Church 4128 Aspen Street Gospel Temple Baptist Church 1327 South 19th Street Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia 1837–55 North Broad Street HABS Greater Exodus Baptist Church 704 North Broad Street Greater Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church 5522 Woodland Avenue Mount Hebron Baptist Church 1419 Wharton Street New Greenwich Light Baptist Church 121 West Oregon Avenue Pennepack Baptist Church 8732 Krewstown Road People's Baptist Church 5039 Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia City of Praise Baptist Church 1648 West Hunting Park Avenue St. Andrews Fellowship Baptist Church 4910 Wayne Avenue Smith Chapel Baptist Church 1828 Ridge Avenue Tacony Baptist Church 4715 Disston Street HABS Transfiguration Baptist Church 3732 Fairmount Avenue Union Tabernacle Baptist Church 4856 Lancaster Avenue Vietnamese International Baptist Church of Philadelphia 590 Adams Avenue Damaged or destroyed by a fire in 2020 Wayland Memorial Baptist Church 5126 Baltimore Avenue Wayland Temple Baptist Church 2500 Cecil B. Moore Avenue White Rock Baptist Church 5240 Chestnut Street

Brethren in Christ Church Image Church Location Notes Mount Calvary Holy Church 5944 Catharine StreetCircle of Hope2214 South Broad Street2007 Frankford Avenue2309 North Broad Street5720 Ridge Avenue3800 Marlton Pike, NJ

Episcopal

Image Church Location Notes Church of the Advocate 1801 West Diamond Street Christ Church 20 North American Street Church of the Crucifixion 620 South 8th Street Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church Columbus Boulevard and Christian Street Church of the Holy Trinity 1904 Walnut Street Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral 3723 Chestnut Street Saint Clement's Church 2013 Appletree Street St. James Kingsessing (Old Swedes') 6838 Woodland Avenue official website Church of St. James the Less 3227 West Clearfield Street Church of St. Luke & the Epiphany 330 South 13th Street Saint Mark's Episcopal Church 1625 Locust Street Church of St. Martin in the Fields 8000 St. Martin’s Lane Saint Mary's Church 3916 Locust Walk St. Paul's Episcopal Church 22 East Chestnut Hill Avenue Saint Peter's Church 313 Pine Street Saint Stephen's Church 19 South Tenth Street African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas 6361 Lancaster Avenue First building: 5th Street, south of Walnut Street 5720 Ridge Avenue Trinity Church Oxford 6901 Rising Sun Avenue Built c. 1700

Friends (Quaker) Image Church Location Notes Arch Street Friends Meeting House 4th and Arch Streets InteriorChestnut Hill Friends Meeting20 East Mermaid Lane Frankford Friends Meeting House Unity and Waln Streets Free Quaker Meetinghouse 500 Arch Street Germantown Friends Meeting House 47 West Coulter Street Race Street Friends Meetinghouse 1515 Cherry Street West Philadelphia Friends Meeting House 3500 Lancaster Avenue Former buildings Girard Avenue Meeting House 17th Street and Girard Avenue Built 1862Discontinued 1934Demolished Greater Friends Meeting House SW corner 2nd and Market Streets Built 1755.Dismantled 1812, used to build Twelfth Street Meeting House. Orange Street Friends Meeting House 7th Street and Washington Square South Demolished 1911 Twelfth Street Meeting House 20 South 12th Street Built 1812-14, using materials from the Greater Meeting House.Dismantled and relocated to the George School, 1972-74.

Lutheran Image Church Location Notes Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement 1538–1542 East Montgomery Avenue HABS Redeemer Lutheran Church 3200 Ryan Avenue St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Mt. Airy) 6671 Germantown Avenue Closed September 2016 St. Michael's Lutheran Church - Kensington 2139 East Cumberland Street, Kensington HABS Tacony Evangelical Lutheran Church 6816 Jackson Street HABS University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation 3637 Chestnut Street Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion 2110 Chestnut Street

Mennonite Image Church Location Notes Vietnamese Mennonite Church 6237 Woodland Avenue West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship 4740 Baltimore Avenue Building was constructed by and is shared with Calvary United Methodist Abundant Life Chinese Mennonite Church 1731 South Broad Street Germantown Mennonite Church 21 West Washington Lane Photo shows the historic Mennonite Meetinghouse, predecessor of the current church nearby Love Truth Chinese Mennonite Church 600 West Chew Avenue Oxford Circle Mennonite Church 900 East Howell Street

Methodist Image Church Location Notes Arch Street United Methodist Church 55 North Broad Street Calvary United Methodist Church 801 48th Street Fox Chase United Methodist Church Loney and Fillmore Streets Saint George's United Methodist Church 324 New Street United Methodist Church of the Redeemer 1128 Cottman Avenue Kensington (Old Brick) United Methodist Church 300 Richmond Street (at Marlborough Street) Founded June 1801HABS

Non-Denominational Image Church Location Notes Metro Church 4200 Ridge Avenue Formerly known as Metro Presbyterian Church. The building is listed in the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and was historically named "Odd Fellow’s Hall," "Prince Hall Masonic Temple," and "Palestine Hall."

Orthodox Church

Albanian Orthodox Image Church Location Notes Saint John Chrysostom Albanian Orthodox Church 237 North 17th Street

Greek Orthodox Jurisdiction: Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey (New Jersey; the Greater Philadelphia area; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia) Image Church Location Notes Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George 256 South 8th Street Evangelismos of Theotokos 6501 Bustleton Avenue

Orthodox Church in America (OCA) Jurisdiction: Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania Image Church Location Notes Assumption of the Holy Virgin Church 2101 South 28th Street St. Stephen Cathedral 8598 Verree Road Church of Our Lady 560 North 20th Street St. Nicholas Church 817 North 7th Street

Russian Orthodox Jurisdiction: Russian Orthodox Church in the USA Image Church Location Notes Saint Andrew's Cathedral 5th Street and Fairmount Avenue St. Michael the Archangel Church 335 Fairmount Avenue

Pentecostal Image Church Location Notes Bible School Mission Pentecostal Church 4512 Lancaster Avenue Ebenezer Temple Pentecostal Church 5649 Christian Street Mount Carmel Pentecostal Church 4716 Woodland Avenue New Beginnings Pentecostal Church 502 East Haines Street

Presbyterian Image Church Location Notes Arch Street Presbyterian Church 1726–1732 Arch Street Bethel Korean Presbyterian Church 6831 North Franklin Street Bethel Presbyterian Church 1900 West York Street Calvin Presbyterian Church 1401 North 60th Street Cedar Park Presbyterian Church 7740 Limekiln Pike Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church 8855 Germantown Avenue Christ's Presbyterian Church 1020 South 10th Street Disston Memorial Presbyterian Church 4506 Tyson Avenue HABS Emmanuel Chapel 835 Reed Street Emmanuel Church 4723 Spruce Street Falls of Schuylkill Presbyterian Church 3800 West Vaux Street First African Presbyterian Church 4159 West Girard Avenue First Presbyterian Church 201 South 21st Street First Presbyterian Church of Kensington 418 East Girard Avenue Samuel Sloan, architectHABS Liberti Northeast: 2424 East York StreetFairmount: 1901 West Girard Avenue Lombard Central Presbyterian 4201 Powelton Avenue Mount Airy Presbyterian Church 13 East Mt. Pleasant Avenue Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church 412 Pine Street Olivet Covenant Presbyterian Church 608 North 22nd Street Overbrook Presbyterian Church 6376 City Avenue Renewal Presbyterian Church 4633 Cedar Avenue Summit Presbyterian Church 6757 Greene Street Tabernacle United Church 3700 Chestnut Street HABS Tenth Presbyterian Church 1700 Spruce Street Completed 1856, John McArthur Jr., architectAltered 1893, Frank Miles Day, architectWooden spire removed 1912 Third Reformed Presbyterian 3024 Byberry Road Union Tabernacle Presbyterian 2036–2038 East Cumberland Street HABS Wissahickon Presbyterian Church 5245 Ridge Avenue Woodland Presbyterian Church 401 South 42nd Street Wylie Chambers Memorial Presbyterian (Broad Street Ministry) 315 South Broad Street Former buildings Green Hill Presbyterian Church 1617 West Girard Avenue John Notman, architectDemolished 2009 Boulevard United Presbyterian Church 200 East Wyoming Avenue Existing structure for sale in 2014Current denomination unknown

Reformed Image Church Location Notes Resurrection Philadelphia (formerly First Baptist Church) 123 South 17th Street

Reformed Episcopal Church Image Church Location Notes Reformed Episcopal Church of the Atonement 6100 Greene Street St. Luke's-Bishop Hoffman Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church 6701 Frankford Avenue Christ Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church 43rd and Chestnut Streets Demolished 2018

Roman Catholic

Image Church Location Notes Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul 18th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway St. John the Evangelist Church 21 South 13th Street Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church and School 915 Vine Street HABS Church of the Gesú 1733 West Girard Avenue Immaculate Conception Church 1020 North Front Street Immaculate Conception Church (East Germantown) 1020 East Price Street Closed June 2012 2535 East Allegheny Avenue Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church and School 1008 North 48th Street Old Saint Joseph's Church 321 Willings Alley Our Mother of Consolation Church 9 East Chestnut Hill Avenue Resurrection of Our Lord Church 2000 Shelmire Avenue St. Adalbert in Philadelphia 2645 East Allegheny Avenue Known as the "Polish Cathedral" of Philadelphia Saint Augustine Church 243 North Lawrence Street Saint Charles Borromeo Roman Catholid Church 902 South 20th Street Saint Cyprian Catholic Church 525 South Cobbs Creek Parkway Saint Donato Church 403 North 65th Street Saint Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church 4625 Springfield Avenue Saint Gabriel's 2917 Dickinson Street St. Agatha – St. James Church 3728 Chestnut Street Saint Joachim Church 1527 Church Street Closed July 2013 Saint Laurentius 1608 East Berks Street Closed March 2014 St. Leo the Great 6670 Keystone Street DemolishedHABS St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi Church 712 Montrose Street St. Mary's 248 South 4th Street St. Michael's Church 1445 North 2nd Street St. Monica Parish Church 2422 South 17th Street Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church 1718 South 9th Street Saint Paul Church 923 Christian Street Saint Peter the Apostle 1019 North 5th Street (at Girard Avenue) National Shrine of Saint John Neumann National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia 1166 South Broad Street Saint Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church 608 Welsh Road St. William Church 6200 Rising Sun Avenue Stella Maris Catholic Church 2901 South 10th Street Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church 300 East Lehigh Avenue HABS

Ukrainian Catholic Image Church Location Notes Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church 1629 West Cayuga Street Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral 830 North Franklin Street

Unitarian