Christ Church is an Episcopal church in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Founded in 1695 as a parish of the Church of England, it played an integral role in the founding of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Christ Church was founded in 1695 by members of the Church of England, who built a small wooden church on the site.
When the congregation outgrew this structure some twenty years later, they decided to erect a new church, the most sumptuous in the colonies.
The main body of the church was constructed between 1727 and 1744, and the steeple was added in 1754, making it the tallest building in North America at the time.
From 1754 to 1810, the church's 196-foot (60 m.) tower and steeple was the tallest structure in North America. (Copied from Wikipedia)