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Home Moravian Church is a Moravian church located in Old Salem, North Carolina. The church was founded on November 13, 1771, [1] in what was then the Province of North Carolina . Its burial ground, God's Acre Cemetery , is located around 100 yards (91 m) to the north.
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Czech: Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) founded ...
The movement that would develop into the Moravian Church was started by a Catholic priest named Jan Hus (in English John Hus) in the early 15th century. The Church was established as a reaction to practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Hus wanted to return the Church in Bohemia and Moravia to the practices of early Christianity: performing the ...
The Moravian Church in North America is part of the worldwide Moravian Church Unity. It dates from the arrival of the first Moravian missionaries to the United States in 1735, from their Herrnhut settlement in present-day Saxony, Germany. They came to minister to the scattered German immigrants, to the Native Americans and to enslaved Africans.
The Moravian Church settlement in Co Antrim is the region’s second Unesco World Heritage Site following recognition of the Giant’s Causeway. It came at the 46th session of the World Heritage ...
Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, which was originally settled by the Moravian community in 1766. [3] It features a living-history museum which interprets the restored Moravian community. The non-profit organization began its work in 1950, although some private residents had restored buildings ...
Moravian Church music. Trombone Choir of the Moravian Church in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, c.1900. The Moravian musical tradition in United States began with the earliest Moravian settlers in the first half of the 18th century. These Moravians were members of a well-established church – officially called Unitas Fratrum or Unity of Brethren ...
The Moravian Church of the British Province (formally The Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland) is part of the worldwide Moravian Church Unity. The Moravian Church in Britain has bishops in apostolic succession. English Moravian worship uses prayers taken from Anglican, Scottish and Free Church texts, but some practices are distinctive ...