St. James Kingsessing

St. James Kingsessing, commonly called "Old Swedes," is an historic American church located at 68th Street and Woodland Avenue in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the churches created by settlers and descendants of the Delaware Valley colony of New Sweden, a colony planted by the Swedish South Company that existed from 1638 and 1655, when it was conquered by the Dutch. St. James, built in 1762, is a sister congregation to the old Swedish church of Gloria Dei in the Southwark neighborhood of Philadelphia.[1][2][3]

St James Kingsessing Episcopal Church

References

1. Burr, Nelson H. “The Early History of the Swedes and the Episcopal Church in America.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, vol. 7, no. 2, 1938, pp. 113–132. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42968310.
2. White, Joyce L. “The Affiliation Of Seven Swedish Lutheran Churches With The Episcopal Church.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, vol. 46, no. 2, 1977, pp. 171–186. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42973552.
3. “HISTORIC CHURCHES IN PHILADELPHIA.” Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 56, no. 1, 1945, pp. 17–35. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44209578.

Further reading

The Old Swede's Church of St. James Kingsessing, 1762, printed 1911