Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple

Adath Shalom (Hebrew: עדת שלום) was a Conservative synagogue located at 607 W Ritner Street, in the Whitman neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The synagogue opened in 1922 and closed in 2007. The building was most recently used as the Preah Buddah Rangsey Temple, a Buddhist temple. It was sold in February 2018 and, as of 2019, was unoccupied.

The Jacob and Ester Stiffel Senior Center of the Jewish Community Centers of Philadelphia (the 'Stiffel Center') opened in 1928 as Jewish Education Center No. 2 (Hebrew: תלמוד תורה) at the southeast corner of Marshall and Porter Streets in South Philadelphia. The Center was funded by Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. The neighborhood's Jewish population aged, and the Federation closed the building in 2011 and sold it in 2013. The original Jewish Education Center offered free religious and Hebrew instruction as well as recreational activities. South Philadelphia's Jewish population aged in the late 1960s and the Center evolved its programming for its aging population.The Stiffel Senior Center offered education and social programs, served kosher hot meals, and provided other resources for its aging members. The Stiffel Center was supporting 225 elderly Jewish neighbors in 1989. Before its closing, the Center was serving approximately 500 neighborhood community members of whom 150 were Jewish.In May 2011, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia voted to close the Stiffel Center due to the Center's increasing costs in maintaining the aging building. Federation reported losing $200,000 a year on the building and another $400,000 was needed to fix repair structural issues. The Federation sold the building in 2013 for $325,000 to Temple Housing Association in Jackson, New Jersey. In October 2012, the Stiffel Center organization merged with the Klein JCC to create a single agency.On June 14, 2013, the Philadelphia Historical Commission added the building to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, protecting it from inappropriate alterations and unnecessary demolition.

Lower Moyamensing is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, situated just south of the East Passyunk Crossing neighborhood and north of the stadium area. It is bounded by Snyder Avenue to the north, Oregon Avenue to the south, South 7th Street to the east, and South Broad Street to the west. The neighborhood was once part of Moyamensing Township (later East Moyamensing) before becoming part of Philadelphia in 1854. Lower Moyamensing is known for its 19th century row homes, factory buildings, and variety of restaurants. South Philadelphia High School is located in Lower Moyamensing, at the corner of Broad and Jackson Streets.

YPC Shari-Eli is an unaffiliated Conservative synagogue located in the Whitman neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Congregational services are lay-led. YPC Shari Eli was founded in 1948. It is South Philadelphia's last active Conservative synagogue and only synagogue located south of Snyder Avenue.

Francis Scott Key School is a public elementary school located in the Central South Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. The historic school building was built in 1889, and is a three-story, eight-bay, brick building on a limestone base in the Late Victorian-style. It features a decorative brick corbel, small pedimented dormer, and three great flaring capped chimneys. It was named for American lawyer, author, and amateur poet Francis Scott Key (1779-1843). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.Areas assigned to Key are assigned to Southwark School for grades 7-8. Students zoned to Southwark and to Key are also zoned to South Philadelphia High School.

Whitman is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bounded on the west by Sixth Street, on the east by Front Street, on the south by Bigler Street, and on the north by Snyder Avenue. The name "Whitman" was adopted when the nearby Walt Whitman Bridge was being constructed in the 1950s. In 2015, Whitman and nearby South Philadelphia neighborhoods were named by Philadelphia Magazine as one of the safest and most family-friendly neighborhoods in Philadelphia.

Whitman Plaza is the largest shopping center in the Whitman neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The shopping plaza is located on Oregon Avenue at S 3rd Street, where it stands at over 280,000 sq ft (26,000 m2). It is located adjacent to Baby Saigon, the Vietnamese neighborhood market in which Oregon Market resides.Whitman Plaza is locally maintained by Breslin Realty and the Whitman Council neighborhood civic organization. Neighborhood groups have created the Whitman Plaza community group to organize neighborhood gatherings within the plaza and surrounding area.

Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron Ezras Israel (Hebrew: קאנגרעגיישאן שבטי ישורון עזרת ישראל) is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation and synagogue located in the Pennsport neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The congregation moved to its current location in 1909 and had purchased the building by 1917. It is South Philadelphia's oldest continuously active synagogue building and congregation. Religious services are lay led and conducted in the Ashkenazi rite. The congregation offers cultural events and tours open to the public.

George W. Sharswood School is a K-8 school located in the Whitman neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.

D. Newlin Fell School is a public elementary school located in the East Oregon neighborhood of South Philadelphia. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia, and shares a site with the George C. Thomas Junior High School. It was named in honor of D. Newlin Fell, who served as a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1894 to 1910 and Chief Justice until 1915. The historic building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1922–1924. It is a three-story, eight-bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Colonial Revival-style. It features two projecting entrances with stone surrounds and a brick parapet.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.Students zoned to Fell are zoned to South Philadelphia High School.

Mastery Charter School Thomas Campus, formerly the George C. Thomas Junior High School, is a secondary charter school located in the south section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is run by Mastery Charter Schools. It is located at the intersection of 9th and Johnston Streets just north of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. Nearby are the residential neighborhoods of Marconi Plaza, Lower Moyamensing, and Packer Park; the recreational parkland of FDR Park; and the historical and new business-development center of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The school is located within the boundaries of the Sports Complex Special Services District, directly on the Oregon Avenue urban corridor of small shops and restaurants anchored by larger shopping plazas on the east and west end of Oregon Avenue, and near the revitalized commercial area of Passyunk Avenue. It shares a site with the D. Newlin Fell School. The school serves portions of South Philadelphia programmed for grades 7 through 12. It was previously part of the School District of Philadelphia. In 2009, a Charter School college-bound curriculum was established at George C. Thomas, and the interior building was renovated, along with the main entrance on the south side, facing Johnston Street.

The Edward W. Bok Technical High School was a public high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Irwin T. Catharine and named after literary figure Edward William Bok, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. It was completed in February 1938 by the Public Works Administration (WPA) as a vocational high school at 8th & Mifflin Streets. As part of the Philadelphia Public Schools' Multiple Property Submission, the school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December, 1986. Bok High School was reorganized in 2006-2007 to prepare students for jobs in modern technology. After the 2012-2013 school year, the school was closed. In 2014, the school was renovated to become a home for over 200 businesses including restaurants, apartments, daycares, and hair salons.