Mount Pisgah Church Site

Neighborhood:West

Address:
4008 Locust St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Significance:
Founded in 1833, the Mount Pisgah Church congregation was one of the earliest offshoots from "Mother" Bethel (see entry). According to Cooperman, the congregation's first home was a frame building on the south side of Locust Street just west of Till Street (now 40th Street). The first building was replaced by a brick structure before the 1880s. In 1942, the congregation moved to 428 N. 41st Street (see entry), and the former church property was subsequently purchased by the University of Pennsylvania.

Type of Historic Resource:church

Extant: no