Religious Legacy
Edna Rose Ritchings (Mother Divine) is still alive and conducts services for the old and dwindling congregation. The movement still owns several properties, such as Father Divine's Gladwyne estate Woodmont, his former home in Sayville, New York, and the Circle Mission Church on Broad Street in Philadelphia, which also houses the movement's library.
Chapters still exist in Pennsylvania and posssibly elsewhere, but the movement is not centralized and exists through a number of inter-related groups.
In 2004, Gastronomica magazine did an article about Mother S. A. Divine and the movement's feasts.
In 2000, the Divine Lorraine Hotel near Temple University on North Broad Street was sold off by the international Peace Mission Movement. It was a budget hotel with separate floors for men and women in accord with Father Divine's teachings.
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