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The Church of St. Alban, Roxborough is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1859 as a chapel of ease of St. David's Episcopal Church in Manayunk, initially with a dedication to St. Peter. The cornerstone for the church building was laid on September 15, 1860, and the church was consecrated by Bishop William Bacon Stevens on January 14, 1862, as his first official episcopal act, having himself been consecrated to the episcopate six days earlier. Its architect was Alfred Byles, who also designed the Fifth Baptist Church at the corner of Eighteenth and Spring Garden in Philadelphia.

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rdfs:comment	The Church of St. Alban, Roxborough is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1859 as a chapel of ease of St. David's Episcopal Church in Manayunk, initially with a dedication to St. Peter. The cornerstone for the church building was laid on September 15, 1860, and the church was consecrated by Bishop William Bacon Stevens on January 14, 1862, as his first official episcopal act, having himself been consecrated to the episcopate six days earlier. Its architect was Alfred Byles, who also designed the Fifth Baptist Church at the corner of Eighteenth and Spring Garden in Philadelphia. (en)
foaf:name	Church of St. Alban the Martyr (en) St. Alban's Episcopal Church (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Princeton Theological Seminary Roxborough, Philadelphia Battle of Gettysburg Book of Common Prayer 1859 establishments in Pennsylvania 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania Union Army E. and G.G. Hook & Hastings Saint Peter Church of St. James the Less Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal (Manhattan) Episcopal Church (United States) Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Episcopal Diocese of Springfield German-American Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Religious organizations established in 1859 Manayunk, Philadelphia COVID-19 pandemic Ad orientem Tracker action William Bacon Stevens Facebook Christian organizations established in the 1850s Churches in Philadelphia Charles R. Hale (bishop) St. Alban's Church, Olney St. David's Church, Manayunk St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Roxborough Chapel of ease Society of Catholic Priests Saint Alban dbr:Alfred_Byles
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://www.diopa.org https://phillyandstuff.blogspot.com/2020/09/paula-himmelsbach-balano-1877-1967.html https://stdavidsmanayunk.org/assets/st.-david-annals-8-x-14-combo.pdf https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7641282/ https://philadelphiastudies.org/2016/06/20/parish-history-of-the-church-of-st-alban-roxborough-1859-1949/ https://philadelphiastudies.org/2016/07/17/parish-profile-of-the-church-of-st-albans-roxborough-1978/ https://philadelphiastudies.org/2018/01/11/study-of-the-episcopal-diocese-of-pennsylvania-church-of-st-alban-roxborough-1964/ http://www.churchofstalban.com https://pipeorgandatabase.org/organ/5529
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has abstract	The Church of St. Alban, Roxborough is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1859 as a chapel of ease of St. David's Episcopal Church in Manayunk, initially with a dedication to St. Peter. The cornerstone for the church building was laid on September 15, 1860, and the church was consecrated by Bishop William Bacon Stevens on January 14, 1862, as his first official episcopal act, having himself been consecrated to the episcopate six days earlier. Its architect was Alfred Byles, who also designed the Fifth Baptist Church at the corner of Eighteenth and Spring Garden in Philadelphia. During the twentieth century, St. Alban's was nicknamed "Roxborough's Little Church Around the Corner," a reference to the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City as a small and uncharacteristically open parish. The tracker action organ at St. Alban's is Hook & Hastings Opus 1750 from 1897. Several of the church's stained glass windows are by Paula Himmelsbach Balano (1877-1967), a German-American church artist working in a medium uncommon for women at the time of her installations. The sanctuary is designed to accommodate ad orientem celebration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Alban's began and maintained a regimen of daily Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer broadcast on Facebook. The parish is a supporter of the St. James School at the former Church of St. James the Less in East Falls. It is part of the Wissahickon Deanery of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The parish's current rector is the Rev. Paul Adler, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and member of the Society of Catholic Priests. (en)
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