Bryn Athyn
Bryn Athyn is a home-rule borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Bryn Athyn is a home-rule borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was formerly a borough, and its official name remains "Borough of Bryn Athyn". As of the 2020 census, Bryn Athyn had a population of 1,272. It was formed for religious reasons from Moreland Township on February 8, 1916. Bryn Athyn is surrounded by Lower Moreland Township.
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Worth seeing in and around Bryn Athyn
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Bryn Athyn Cathedral is the episcopal seat of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, a denomination of Swedenborgianism. The main building is of the Early Gothic style, while the adjoining structures are of a transitional period reflective of a combination of both Gothic and Norman styles.
600 m · historic church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 02Bryn Athyn College
Bryn Athyn College of the New Church is a private Christian college in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, United States. It is affiliated with the General Church of the New Jerusalem.
800 m · college in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 03Cairnwood
Cairnwood is a 26,000-square-foot historic home next to the Glencairn Museum in the borough of Bryn Athyn in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was designed by the architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings and built in 1895. The surrounding grounds were designed by Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot.
400 m · historic house in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 04Glencairn Museum
Glencairn is a castle-like mansion in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, that was home to the Pitcairn family for more than 40 years. Now the Glencairn Museum, it contains a collection of about 8,000 artworks, mostly religious in nature, from cultures such as ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and medieval Europe, as well as Islamic, Asian, and Native American works.
400 m · building in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bryn Athyn
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 33 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 97 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 122 km
- Stations
- Philmont, 2.8 km · County Line, 2.9 km
- New York → Bryn Athyn111 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · $11–15
- Newark → Bryn Athyn101 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · $10–14
- Baltimore → Bryn Athyn162 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · $15–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bryn Athyn
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bryn Athyn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Bryn Athyn
Bryn Athyn is 22 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Huntingdon Valleyhuman settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America2.9 km
- Fetter's Mill Village Historic DistrictByrn Athyn Borough, PA, listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania900 m