Philadelphia has 2393 miles of streets and 2169 churches, which means you would expect, in this city of one and a half million people, to drive, on average, 1.1 miles between churches on any given street. On 38th Street, you would drive 672 feet.

St. Agatha–St. James Roman Catholic Church, at the corner of 38th and Chestnut in University City, is the southernmost of the group, and one of the oldest and largest. It was built in the Gothic style in 1887 by E.F. Durang, who designed many prominent, nineteenth-century Catholic churches in Philadelphia.