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The Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District encompasses a complex of the oldest surviving buildings in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.The National Historic Landmark District is a subset of the larger Central Bethlehem Historic District which is specifically focused on the early buildings constructed by the Moravians, who settled the city in the 18th century.
On a recent day, she led families visiting the community putz to their seats. After recounting a brief history of the Moravian Church and the Pennsylvania city, she drew a curtain to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated with pebbles, wood and moss.
Moravian University is a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The institution traces its founding to 1742 by Moravians, descendants of followers of the Bohemian Reformation under John Amos Comenius. Moravian Church Settlements — Bethlehem was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2024. This designation includes two ...
The seal of the Moravian Church featuring the Agnus Dei in stained glass at the Rights Chapel of Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Before finally settling in Pennsylvania, and later founding another settlement in North Carolina, the Moravians initially made an attempt at settlement in Georgia for their mission work. [6]
The God's Acre in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, also known as Moravian Cemetery, is the oldest Moravian cemetery in North America and the second oldest God's Acre, just behind the one in Herrnhut. [5] It was created in 1742 when Johannes Müller died of a fever.
The Moravian Sun Inn was an eighteenth-century inn that was built by the Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to provide accommodations for non-Moravian merchants who had business with the community.
The 1752 Apothecary, part of the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, was the oldest pharmacy in continuous operation in the United States up until its closing in the 1950s. [ 8 ] The first classes in the nation to educate girls in a broad curriculum similar to what boys were taught were instituted in 1742 by Countess Benigna von Zinzendorf.
History of education in Bethlehem, PA 1966: Kenneth G. Hamilton: Salem in Wachovia and the Genius of the Moravians as Colonizers 1965: Vernon Nelson: Samuel Isles, First Moravian Missionary on Antiqua 1964: Richmond E. Myers: Moravians and the Civil War 1963: Allan W. Schattschneider: A History of the Moravian Church at New Dorp, Staten Island ...