Jenkintown
Jenkintown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with National Landmarks, an active arts scene, and shops and restaurants. It is approximately 10 miles north of Center City Philadelphia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,350 residents
- Description: borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Jenkins-town”, “Jenkintown, PA”, and “Jenkintown, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 19046
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abington Art Center and Beth Sholom Synagogue.
Abington Art Center
Arts center
Abington Art Center is an art center built in 1939, and located in Abington Township, a northern suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The center resides within Alverthorpe Manor and the surrounding 27-acre grounds that were formerly the residence of Lessing J.
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Synagogue
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Beth Sholom Synagogue is a Conservative Jewish synagogue at 8231 Old York Road in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The main synagogue building, completed in 1959, was the only Jewish house of worship designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; it consists of a hexagonal base topped by a tetrahedron-shaped pyramidal roof.
Jenkins’ Town Lyceum Building
Library
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The Jenkins' Town Lyceum Building, also known as the Jenkintown Library, is an historic American lyceum and library building located in Jenkintown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abington Township and Elkins Park.
Abington Township
Photo: Hshuvaeva, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abington Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is adjacent to Philadelphia's northern fringe. The population was 58,502 as of the 2020 census, making it the second most populous township in Montgomery County after Lower Merion Township.
Elkins Park
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Elkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the northern suburbs outside of Philadelphia, which it borders along Cheltenham Avenue roughly 7 miles from Center City.
Willow Grove
Photo: Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Willow Grove is a town in the Philadelphia Region of Pennsylvania approximately 12 miles north of Philadelphia. This article also covers the nearby communities of Horsham and Hatboro.
Jenkintown
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Montgomery County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.0959° or 40° 5′ 45″ northLongitude
-75.1257° or 75° 7′ 33″ westPopulation
4,350Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)United Nations Location Code
US JKTOpen location code
87G63VWF+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 158472613OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Jenkintown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنكينتاون”
- Basque: “Jenkintown”
- Catalan: “Jenkintown”
- Cebuano: “Jenkintown”
- Chechen: “Дженкинтаун”
- Chinese: “Jenkintown”
- Chinese: “詹金森”
- Chinese: “詹金鎮”
- Dutch: “Jenkintown”
- Finnish: “Jenkintown”
- French: “Jenkintown”
- German: “Jenkintown”
- Gilaki: “جنکینتاؤن (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “جنکینتاؤن”
- Haitian: “Jenkintown, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Jenkintown”
- Italian: “Jenkintown”
- Japanese: “ジェンキンタウン”
- Korean: “젱킨타운”
- Ladin: “Jenkintown”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jenkintown”
- Persian: “جنکینتاون، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “جنکینتاون”
- Polish: “Jenkintown”
- Portuguese: “Jenkintown”
- Russian: “Дженкинтаун”
- Serbian: “Џенкинтаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jenkintown, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jenkintown”
- Slovenian: “Jenkintown”
- Spanish: “Jenkintown (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Jenkintown”
- Swedish: “Jenkintown”
- Tatar: “Дженкинтаун”
- Turkish: “Jenkintown”
- Ukrainian: “Дженкінтаун”
- Uzbek: “Jenkintown”
- Uzbek: “Женкинтоwн”
- Vietnamese: “Jenkintown, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Jenkintown”
- Volapük: “Jenkintown”
- Welsh: “Jenkintown, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Jenkintown”
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