Editing Chester, Pennsylvania (section)

==Religion==
[[File:Chester Meeting Delco.jpg|thumb|The current [[Chester Friends Meetinghouse]] was built in 1829 but the first meetinghouse dates back to 1693.]]
[[File:3rd Presby Chester PA from SE.JPG|thumb|[[Third Presbyterian Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)|Third Presbyterian Church]] was the site of the first summer Bible School in 1912]]
Chester has several churches of historical importance:

*[[Asbury AME Church]] - Founded in 1845, it is the second oldest [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]] in Chester behind the Union African Methodist Church built in 1832
*[[Calvary Baptist Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)|Calvary Baptist Church]] - A Baptist church founded in 1879. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] attended Calvary Baptist when he was a student at [[Crozer Theological Seminary]] from 1948 to 1951
*[[Chester Friends Meetinghouse]] - The first Quaker meetinghouse was built in 1693 and [[William Penn]] was known to speak there
*[[St. Paul's Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)|St. Paul's Church and Old Burial Ground]] - An Episcopal church originally built in 1702.  In 1859, a new church was built on Third Street.  In 1900, the current St. Paul's Church was built at 9th and Madison Street.  The Old Burial Ground contains the remains of [[John Morton (American politician)|John Morton]], signer of the Declaration of Independence; [[David Lloyd (judge)|David Lloyd]], Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Colony and Major [[William Anderson (Pennsylvania politician)|William Anderson]], officer in the Continental Army and U.S. Congressman
*[[Third Presbyterian Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)|Third Presbyterian Church]] - A Presbyterian church founded in 1872.  It was the location of the first [[Vacation Bible School|summer bible school]] in 1912.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chester|date=2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=Charleston, South Carolina|isbn=978-0-7385-6348-0|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tr4_Kx9Mf9AC&pg=PA21|access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> It was severely damaged by fire in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phillyvoice.com/chester-historic-church-fire-third-presbyterian-delaware-county-isaac-pursell/|website=www.phillyvoice.com|access-date=2020-05-28|title=Historic Chester church destroyed by five-alarm fire|date=28 May 2020}}</ref>

St. Katharine Drexel Church is the only Roman Catholic parish remaining in Chester.  It is part of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia]] and is the result of the conglomeration of six Chester parishes in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mengers, Patti|url=https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/mainlinetimes/news/philadelphia-archdiocese-announcing-church-parish-closings/article_46d4a126-1548-5e08-a36e-2594065ab151.html|title=Philadelphia Archdiocese announcing church parish closings|work=[[Mainline Times]]|publisher=[[Mainline Media News]]|date=2013-06-02|access-date=2020-05-03|archive-date=2020-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503210324/https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/mainlinetimes/news/philadelphia-archdiocese-announcing-church-parish-closings/article_46d4a126-1548-5e08-a36e-2594065ab151.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>