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400 A History of Sweden
Rudman became pastor at Wicaco, and Bjork located
at Christina.
The Building of Two Noted Churches. With noble
enthusiasm and willing sacrifice, the people set about
to raise funds for the erection of a substantial church
at Wicaco. The same was done at Christina. There the
construction was begun in 1698 and completed the next
year. The church was built of granite and was sixty
feet long, thirty feet wide and twenty feet high. It was
dedicated on Trinity Sunday, July 4, 1699, and received
the name of Holy Trinity Church. It is now known as
the "Old Swedes’ Church" of Wilmington.
The building of the church at Wicaco was delayed
for some time owing to dispute as to its location. This
dispute having finally been amicably settled, the build-
ing went rapidly forward. The size of the church was
the same as that of Trinity at Christina. The founda-
tion was of stone and the superstructure of brick. The
church was dedicated on the first Sunday after Trinity,
July 2, 1700. It received the name of Gloria Dei. It is
located in the southern part of Philadelphia.
Establishment of a New Pastorate. Shortly after
this a third pastorate was established. It consisted of
two congregations on the Jersey side of the Delaware :
one at Raccoon, or Swedesboro, and the other at Penns-
neck. Each congregation had its own church, frame
structures. In 1784, during the pastorate of Nicholas
Collin, a fine brick church, sixty by forty feet and thir-
ty feet high, was erected at Raccoon.
A Bright Period in the Swedish Mission. With the
coming of the two pastors, Rudman and Bjork, a bright
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