Tenth Presbyterian Church
| Tenth Presbyterian Church | |
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 Tenth Presbyterian Church
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| 39°56′49.19″N 75°10′11.52″W / 39.9469972°N 75.1698667°WCoordinates: 39°56′49.19″N 75°10′11.52″W / 39.9469972°N 75.1698667°W | |
| Location | 17th & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Presbyterian Church in America |
| Previous denomination | Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod |
| Membership | 1,500 |
| Weekly attendance | 1,400 |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church |
| Founded | 1829 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Open |
| Architect(s) |
John McArthur, Jr. Frank Miles Day (1893 alterations) |
| Completed | 1856 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 1,082 |
| Spire height | 250 feet (150-foot wooden spire removed from east tower 1912) |
| Administration | |
| Presbytery | Philadelphia |
| Clergy | |
| Minister(s) | Dr. William "Liam" Goligher Dr. Jerry McFarland |
| Assistant | Dr. Bruce A. McDowell (Global Outreach) Carroll Wynne (Pastoral Care) |
| Laity | |
| Student intern | Jason Bull Matthew Denney Gethin Jones Bill Kinkle Lauren Krause Gabe Malloy Nathan Morgan Joe Park Oliver Pierce Zach Worsham |
| Director of music | Colin Howland |
| Session clerk | Dr. George K. McFarland |
| Business manager | Pat Canavan Dot Boersma |
| Youth ministry coordinator | Dora Phan |
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Tenth Presbyterian Church is a congregation of approximately 1,500 members located in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Tenth is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a denomination in the Reformed and Calvinist traditions. It is located at the southwest corner of 17th & Spruce Streets in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, in the southwestern quadrant of Center City.
The original Tenth Presbyterian Church, founded in 1829 as a congregation part of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, was located on the northeast corner of 12th & Walnut Streets. It established a daughter church in 1855–1856 called the West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church on the southwest corner of 17th & Spruce Streets. The two churches worked together, with the ministers exchanging pulpits each week. Because of membership decline in the original Tenth Church caused by population shifts, the two churches merged in 1893 at the 17th & Spruce Streets location, taking the name of the older church (Tenth Presbyterian Church).
West Spruce Street/Tenth Church was designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., who was a member of the congregation. Its 250-foot (76 m) tower-and-spire was the tallest structure in Philadelphia from 1856 to the erection of the North American Building in 1900. McArthur later designed Philadelphia City Hall. In 1893, architect Frank Miles Day was hired to perform major alterations to the church's exterior and interior decoration. The church's steeple and the 150-foot wooden spire, once the tallest structure in Philadelphia until the new City Hall (designed by McArthur as well) was built in 1901, collapsed due to structural decay and was removed in 1912.
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