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If you're ever in the area in Pennsylvania, I highly recommend visiting a place called Bryn Athyn [3]. It's a community owned by a group of Swedenborgians in th
by tdeck 10y ago
If you're ever in the area in Pennsylvania, I highly recommend visiting a place called Bryn Athyn [3]. It's a community owned by a group of Swedenborgians in the United States. I had never heard of them before, and went to see the castle [1] and cathedral [2] one of their wealthier patrons built. Both are very impressive. I got the sense the community has dwindled quite a bit since it's more than a century old.
[1] https://glencairnmuseum.org https://glencairnmuseum.org
[2] https://brynathynchurch.org/cathedral/ https://brynathynchurch.org/cathedral/
[3] This is a "fake" Welsh name. Through an interesting historical quirk, it was popular at a certain time in Pennsylvania to create Welsh-sounding names for your new town, so they would be associated with the wealthier "main-line" towns built by Welsh Tract Quakers in the colonial era.