Join the Dialogue Institute and tour guide David Krueger on Sunday, May 7th at 10 AM!

E-mail info@dialogueinstitute.org for more information.

Location: The walking tour typically begins near the William Penn statue in Welcome Park at 129 Sansom Walk, Philadelphia PA 19106, but alternative starting points can be arranged.

This tour covers sites in Old City Philadelphia and will include visits to several houses of worship (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) and entrance inside two of them. The tour also includes sites where religion was practiced and proclaimed in public spaces such as Washington Square and Carpenter’s Hall by a wide array of the city’s residents including enslaved and free people of African descent, white colonial elites, and itinerant preachers. We will uncover the interfaith roots of Philadelphia’s most cherished institutions such as America’s first university and first public hospital. The tour will explore the influence of William Penn’s religiously diverse colony on constitutional debates about religious freedom that continue to this day.