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Map of Sacred Places
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Sacred Places Details
One way to look at Philadelphia's legacy of liberty is through its sacred places. Freedom to worship openly in a multi-faith community was rare in the early 1700s, even in America. William Penn, a Quaker who suffered persecution in England, considered religious freedom essential to civil liberty and wrote it into his 1701 Charter of Liberties for Philadelphia, the town he called his "Holy Experiment."
Today, Philadelphia's more than 800 houses of worship include the most "first churches" (within their denominations) in the country, and represent many different faiths, architectural styles and communities.
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