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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.
The Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center is a museum in eastern Holmes County, in Berlin, Ohio. [34] It opened in 1981 as the Mennonite Information Center. By 1989 it had moved to the current structure which was finished to include the Behalt Cyclorama as well as a bookstore. The center was renamed in 2002 to reflect its mission as a cultural center.
This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The work illustrates the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from the beginnings of Christianity and is displayed in the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Columbus Dispatch said it was the "Sistine Chapel of the Amish and Mennonites". [ 1 ]
With institutions like the Troll Hole and O'Betty's Hot Dog Museum, Ohio really is the heart of it all - all things unusual, that is!
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In 1995 the Ohio Wisler Mennonite Churches had 131 households in four congregations. [6] In the year 2000 they had 421 adherents with a total population of about 800 people in five congregations, all in Ohio. [4] According to website of the Mennonite World Conference they had 322 adherents in four congregations in 2018. [7]
Located in Smithville, Ohio, Oak Grove Mennonite Church is an historical church that has made a significant contribution to the larger Mennonite denomination, currently pastored by Seth Miller. Oak Grove started as an Amish church in 1818, as many Amish started settling in Wayne County, Ohio. From humble beginnings the church grew and built a ...