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The Mount Lebanon Shaker Village is a historic site associated with the Shakers, a Protestant religious denomination.Founded as a communal group in the 1787, the Shakers located their Central Ministry in New Lebanon, New York, United States, and built a village that eventually covered several thousand acres and housed hundreds of Believers.
Mount Lebanon's main building became a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [2] [8]Although the first of the Shaker settlements in the U.S. was in the Watervliet Shaker Historic District, Mount Lebanon became the leading Shaker society, and was the first to have a building used exclusively for religious purposes.
The New Lebanon Bishopric, the primary bishopric unit, was located in New York and included the Mount Lebanon and Watervliet Shaker Villages, [6] as well as, after 1859, Groveland Shaker Village. In addition to its own member communities, the ministry of New Lebanon Bishopric oversaw all other Shaker bishoprics and communes.
A stereo view of the Mt. Lebanon, New York Shaker community, about 1870. They believed in the second coming of Jesus Christ, and they practiced a celibate life, working to lead a clean, ethical ...
Their Visitor Center & Museum Store is located in the Granary, built in 1838 and located at 202 Shaker Road, New Lebanon, NY 12125. In 2004, the Shaker Museum began expanding to the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village in New Lebanon, New York, in an area of historic Shaker buildings located at the site of the former North Family of Shakers, north of ...
Mount Lebanon Shaker Society (3 P) Pages in category "Shaker communities or museums" ... Mount Lebanon Shaker Village; N. North Union Shaker Site; P. Pleasant Hill ...
The society established its home at the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which became the primary Shaker spiritual residential community. [6] [8] [9] [10] The Mount Lebanon Shaker Village was organized into Family groups living in clustered buildings sited around the property. [6] [10] As of 2010, three main groups of buildings survive.
Pages in category "Mount Lebanon Shaker Society" ... Shaker Village Work Group This page was last edited on 29 August 2019, at 01:10 (UTC). ...