VA, USA
Christ Church Alexandria
Church
Anglican parish church completed in 1773 where George Washington held a family pew. Washington attended services here regularly when in Alexandria and the church served as a social and civic gathering point for the town's Patriot gentry throughout the Revolutionary period.
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