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a view from the cathedral steps

looking down the hill behind Bryn Athyns Cathedral

John Pitcarin was an active member and benefactor of the General Church of the New Jerusalam, a branch of the New Church, which follows the teachings of emanual Swedenburg. Because of Pitcarins fortune, he was able to found the Swedenborgian settlement at Bryn Athyns, Penna. Bryn Athyns, is a little under 2 sq. miles all together.Pitcarin hired the landscape archictect Charles Elliot to lay out Bryn Athyns. Elliot was the partner of Fredrick Olmstead, the landscape architect of Central Park in New York.

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Uploaded on March 29, 2010
Taken on March 28, 2010