1817 - Drawing of the building exterior by the architect (newchurchhistory.org/Paul R. Marchesano)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2025-04-29 - Known from a description of the Temple in New Church History Fun Facts, "First New Jerusalem Temple in Philadelphia (1817)" (https://www.newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/index8ed7.html?p=88) accessed 2025-04-29. The organ builder is not identified: "On January 1, 1817, the New Jerusalem Temple, the first New Church place of worship in the city of Philadelphia, was dedicated at the south-east corner of Twelfth and George [now Sansom] Streets. The building was designed by William Strickland, a member of the New Church who would go on to become the most famous Philadelphia architect of his day. This illustration [see images] of the temple (above) was engraved by Strickland himself. "William Strickland, the architect, was a member of the Philadelphia society. He charged no fee for his work on the temple. According to his biographer, he had become a Swedenborgian in 1813 “because of the example and influence of his friend William Kneass, the secretary of the Philadelphia group” (Agnes Gilchrist, William Strickland: Architect and Engineer: 1788-1854, 1950, 23). "The eastern end of the church contains the pulpit, vestry room, and library. The organ-loft is immediately over the pulpit, the whole being comprised between the circular line of the dome and the end wall...The choir is situated on each side of the organ-loft, over the vestry room and library, which is eleven feet in height, being ornamented on the segment of the circle with pierced panels, and relieved with purple drapery, as a back ground." -Paul R. Marchesano
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