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The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds of the community are now owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission .
Location of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Lancaster County.. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
Marie Elizabeth Kachel Bucher (November 21, 1909 – July 27, 2008) was an American school-teacher and the last surviving resident member of the German Seventh-Day Baptists religious congregation of the Ephrata Cloister, a United States National Historic Landmark located in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum was built in 1932, the Planetarium in 1936, the research library opened in June 1939. The Akhenaton Shrine was built in 1949. [2] The Peace Garden was added to the park in 2004 and dedicated by Rosicrucian Imperator Christian Bernard. In 2013, a new Alchemy Museum was announced for 2020.
The Homestead Park; The Ephrata Cloister site "Conrad Weiser", Pennsylvania State Archives "Last Day of the Lancaster Treaty Council", Simpson College, IA; Joseph S. Walton, Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania, 1900, University of Pittsburgh, Historic Pittsburgh Website. (Weiser's importance in colonial relations with ...
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the U.S., is just a short drive away, offering endless opportunities for hiking, camping, and exploring.
Beissel codified the Ephrata Cloister's unique tradition in his Beissel's Dissertation on Harmony; here, he divided notes into two types. These were masters, or notes belonging to the common chord, and servants, or all other notes. Accented syllables in Beissel's works always fell on master notes, leaving servant notes for unaccented syllables.
Protesters rally outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 05, 2025 in Washington, DC.