On Sundays, the people of Germantown, called Tunkers, assembled for worship in this little old meeting-house with a low roof.

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Germantown is a residential section in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the early American center of printing and publishing. It was settled by Germans around 1683. In the American Revolution (1775-1783), the British were quartered in Germantown. General Washington lost to the British here in 1777. On Sundays, the people of Germantown assembled for worship in a little old meeting-house with a low roof (pictured here). They were the Tunkers—which is German for "Dippers"—Baptists who kept the seventh day for Sunday.

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