From the Quaker Blessing Religious Walking Tour
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Trip Type: Cultural Tours
Duration: 90 minutes
This religious 90-minute walking tour of Old City Philadelphia covers Independence National Park, the Jewish History Museum, and the Slave Memorial. Other stops include the Abolition Bell, the Moon Tree, the tomb of the unknown revolutionary war soldier, Old St. Joseph, Old St. Mary, and the Quaker Meeting House.
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This religious 90-minute walking tour of Old City Philadelphia covers Independence National Park, the Jewish History Museum, and the Slave Memorial. Other stops include the Abolition Bell, the Moon Tree, the tomb of the unknown revolutionary war soldier, Old St. Joseph, Old St. Mary, and the Quaker Meeting House.Meet inside the Visitors Center at the Big Bus Kiosk to view the William Penn Memorial Statue through the glass window. Your 90-minute tour starts with the Quaker Patriarch, centered afar and on-high in the middle of his Cross, with the handle of his sword surrendered to the ploughshare. Hear the story from London’s Tower atop Philadelphia’s Louvre. Start the journey from the Fire to Exile to the Tower to the New World. Walk down a pathway inside the two rivers from the welcome arrival and see the mustard seed that spawned the crèche of a nation.
From visionary adaptation of Augustine’s City-Upon-A-Hill and Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia, see the sites of Independence National Park: the residential row homes on High Street, the Jewish History Museum, the Slave Memorial, the Abolition Bell, Independence Plaza, the Moon Tree, and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier. Glide alongside the old brick as you tread to Willings Alley and Old St. Joseph (Philadelphia's 1st Catholic Church) to Old St. Mary’s (the 1st Cathedral).
Learn the struggle of early immigrants to overcome obstacles like Davidic and Papal Crow Laws and later hate groups like the Know Nothings. See Carpenters’ Hall of the 1st Continental Congress and Franklin Court. Look up to the Nation’s 1752 skyscraper: Christ Church. Stop by the Betsy Ross House and the largest Quaker Meetinghouse. Gaze up to St. Augustine’s steeple that once was home to the Liberty Bell’s Twin. Pass by the home of the Purple Hearts and meet the Second Urban Patriarch Ben Franklin, the inventor of invention whose heart set his mind to work.
Tour returns to your starting point outside the Independence Visitor Center.
From visionary adaptation of Augustine’s City-Upon-A-Hill and Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia, see the sites of Independence National Park: the residential row homes on High Street, the Jewish History Museum, the Slave Memorial, the Abolition Bell, Independence Plaza, the Moon Tree, and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier. Glide alongside the old brick as you tread to Willings Alley and Old St. Joseph (Philadelphia's 1st Catholic Church) to Old St. Mary’s (the 1st Cathedral).
Learn the struggle of early immigrants to overcome obstacles like Davidic and Papal Crow Laws and later hate groups like the Know Nothings. See Carpenters’ Hall of the 1st Continental Congress and Franklin Court. Look up to the Nation’s 1752 skyscraper: Christ Church. Stop by the Betsy Ross House and the largest Quaker Meetinghouse. Gaze up to St. Augustine’s steeple that once was home to the Liberty Bell’s Twin. Pass by the home of the Purple Hearts and meet the Second Urban Patriarch Ben Franklin, the inventor of invention whose heart set his mind to work.
Tour returns to your starting point outside the Independence Visitor Center.
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