Broad and Cecil

From Columbia Avenue Station to the Cecil B. Moore/Temple University Station of SEPTA’s Broad Street Line.

The Cecil B. Moore station of SEPTA’s Broad Street Line lives where Broad Street meets Cecil B. Moore Avenue. The station opened on September 1, 1928.

In 1983, Temple University built the Columbia Avenue Station Plaza in collaboration with the city of Philadelphia.

In 1987, the city of Philadelphia named Columbia Avenue after Cecil B. Moore in honor of the late civil rights activist and Philadelphia native. The SEPTA station is now known as Cecil B. Moore/Temple University station, and is the main stop to get to and from Temple’s campus.

(ABOVE): Ground breaking for the plaza and station of the Broad Street Line Subway at Broad Street and Columbia Avenue, now Cecil B. Moore Avenue, on September 27, 1983. Photograph courtesy of Temple University Libraries.

(ABOVE): Broad Street and Columbia Avenue, now Cecil B. Moore Avenue, looking North. September 18, 1924. Photograph courtesy of the Philly History Photo Archive.

(BELOW): Broad Street and Columbia Avenue, now Cecil B. Moore Avenue, looking South. September 18, 1924. Photograph courtesy of the Philly History Photo Archive.

(ABOVE): The Cecil B. Moore/Temple University SEPTA Northbound Station on Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Monday, February 27, 2023.

(BELOW): The Cecil B. Moore/Temple University SEPTA Southbound Station on Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Monday, February 27, 2023.