The Floating Church of the Redeemer [graphic]

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Dennington, Clement L.

Churchmen's Missionary Association for Seamen of the Port of Philadelphia.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Spruce Street Dock (Delaware River, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Floating Church of the Redeemer (Delaware River, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Local Subjects:

Spruce Street Dock (Delaware River, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Floating Church of the Redeemer (Delaware River, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph ; 53 x 41.5 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Wm. Endicott & Co., s.d.

Notes:

"Built by Clement L. Dennington of New York for the Churchmens Missionary Association for Seamen of the Port of Philadelphia. Building Committee: Joseph E. Hover, chairman, R.S. Trapier, William G. Allen, Henry F. Rodney."

Scharf and Westcott in History of Philadelphia 1609-1884 (1884) v. 2, p.1362 state that the mission was founded in 1847. "The Floating Church of the Redeemer was built and moored for four years in the Spruce Street Dock, which was rented from the city. The dock was then rented to parties for commercial purposes, and the Floating Church was sold to St. John's Church, Camden, who placed it on their lot in Camden, and worshiped in it for several years, until it was destroyed by fire on a Christmas morning.