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Amish youth groups listening to a tour guide at Behalt. The center houses Behalt, a 10 ft x 265 ft cyclorama, [10] [11] also known as a mural-in-the-round, illustrating the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from their origin in Switzerland (circa 1525) to the present day.
He and his family moved to the Holmes County area in 1972 and in 1978, as a response to growing Amish tourism in the area, he decided to create the cyclorama to explain Anabaptist history to visitors. [15] [16] After the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center purchased the unfinished painting in 1988, he continued his work on it in their space ...
Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center: Berlin: Holmes: Northeast Religious Features the Behalt Cyclorama, a mural-in-the-round depicting Amish/Mennonite history Anti-Saloon League Museum: Westerville: Franklin: Central History History of the Anti-Saloon League: Arms Family Museum: Youngstown: Mahoning: Northeast Historic house
The Mennonite Heritage Center is a museum, library and exhibition space in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, United States, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Philadelphia, about the Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania.
It is the location of the Menno-Hof Amish & Mennonite Museum, which showcases the history of the Amish and Mennonite peoples. ... was 2.22 and the average family size ...
In 2008, the Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center estimated that the Central Shenandoah Valley was home to 16,000 Mennonites and Brethren, approximately 10% of the population. Around 800 were Old Order Mennonites, a group that is similar to Old Order Amish .
The Kauffman Amish Mennonites, also called Sleeping Preacher Churches or Tampico Amish Mennonite Churches, are a Plain branch of the Amish Mennonites whose tradition goes back to John D. Kauffman (1847–1913) who preached while being in trance. In 2017, they had some 2,000 baptized members and lived mainly in Missouri and Arkansas.
John F. Funk, Mennonite leader who headed the Mennonite Publishing Company; Hans Herr, considered first Mennonite bishop to emigrate to America; Guy Hershberger, religious educator; Jacob and Anna Hostetler, spiritual leaders of the Jesus Church of Washington and leaders of the Amish-Mennonite Evangelism Network of the United Pentecostal Church