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HOME MORAVIAN
CHURCH
The Home Moravian
Church Sanctuary, built
m 1800, is the regular
place of worship for the
members. The
congregation, now in its
third century, having
been founded in 1771,
today is the largest of
the 50 congregations
that comprise the
i Southern Province of
the Moravian Church in
America. The Home
Moravian Church has
fetained many of its
cich traditions of the
Past, and at the same
'time provides a broad
program of activity for
its large, 20th-century
congregation. Although
the Church is not part of
the Old Salem
Restoration, it
welcomes all wor
shippers to its services
and invites them to visit
the sanctuary when it is
open.
GOD’S ACRE
The Moravian
Graveyard (God’s
Acre) was first used for
burial in 1771. The
burial of members
according to “choirs,”
or station in life
(married men, married
women, single men,
single women, etc.),
rather than by families,
carries out the depart
mental system in
troduced into the
Moravian Church over
200 years ago by Count
Nicholas von Zin-
zendorf. The simple,
recumbent stones
symbolize the Moravian
belief in the democracy
of death, with no
distinction between the
graves of rich and poor.
Since 1772, the Easter
Sunrise Service of the
Moravians has been
concluded in this
graveyard.
SALEM ACADEMY
AND COLLEGE
Salem College, the
campus of which bor
ders Salem Square, is a
four-year liberal arts
college for women.
Salem Academy,
located east of the
college campus, is an
accredited college
preparatory school for
girls. Both are
outgrowths of the school
for girls established by
the Moravians in Salem
in 1772. The first
building for the boar
ding school was con
structed in 1805 and still
serves as a dormitory
for the college. The
school was chartered
for college work in 1868.
Administrative offices
are in the restored
Inspector’s House
(1810).
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MORAVIAN MUSIC
FOUNDATION
The Moravian Music
Foundation, Inc.,
established in 1956 by
the Moravian Church,
has its headquarters at
20 Cascade Avenue,
Winston-Salem (Vi mile
south of Old Salem off
Main Street). Its pur
poses are to supervise
the Moravian music
collections in
Bethlehem, Pennsyl
vania and Winston-
Salem, to make this
music available for
performance, to assist
musicians in the
Moravian Church in
preparation of church
music and to engage in
and encourage research
in the musical life of
early America. The
Moravian collections
include over 10,000
musical documents.
Interested visitors are
welcomed.
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f- MARKET-FIRE HOUSE, 1803
JOHN VOGLER HOUSE, 1819
G.
H.
SALEM TAVERN (Museum), 1784
MUSEUM OF EARLY SOUTHERN
DECORATIVE ARTS
I.
SHULTZ SHOEMAKER
SHOP, 1827
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1820
1832
House
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1771
sign
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1772
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and Shop
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1827
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c.18-10
1828
Johann Heinrich Leinbach House
[1822] and Granary-Stable
Levering House [1820]
Schroetcr House [1805] and
Wash-Bake House
(Tailor)
Site of Night Watchman’s House
[1780]
Site of Triebel House [1775]
Single Brothers Workhop
[1771] and Site of Wood House
and Teamsters Lodge
Community Store [1775]
(Salem Community Store)
Anna Catharina House [1772]
(Moved back from comer to
present site in 1819)
Christoph Voglcr Hou.se [1797]
(Gunsmith)
Samuel Shultz House [1819] and
Shop [1827]
(Shoemaker)
Blum House [1815]
Salem Tavern [1816]
(Dining Rooms)
Site of Senseman House [1817]
Site of Johann Eberhardt House
Solomon Lick House [1822]
Hagan House [1816]
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1795 Lick-Boner House [1787]
1825 Christman House [1825]
1832 Denke House [1832]
(Moved from lajt 90 to present
site in 1969)
Anna Johanna V'ogler House
[1827]
C.1850 Fobs House [1816], Bam and Site
of Shop [1831]
(Gunsmith)
Kuehln House [1831]
1832 Timothy Vogler House [1832]
and Shop [1831]
(Gunsmith)
1832 Lewis Eberhardt House [1832]
and 1834 Shop [1834]
(Locksmith and Clockmaker)
Site of Thomas Welfare House
[1827]
Site of Emanuel Reich House
[1831]
John Siewers House [1844] and
Shop [1842]
(Cabinetmaker)
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7. 1771)
Parish Grave Yard, Second Negro Moravian
Church [1862] and Site of First Negro
Moravian Church [1823]
‘V isitors Welcome
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HISTORIC BETHA-
BARA PARK
Bethabara was the
site of the first
Moravian settlement in
North Carolina. In
recent years ar
chaeological research
has revealed the
foundation walls and
cellars of many of the
original buildings, and
an archaeological park
has been developed to
interpret the early
community. The 1756
palisade fort has been
reconstructed, and the
church and potter’s
house have been
restored as exhibit
buildings. The visitor
center contains exhibits
on the early settlers
including many ar
tifacts found on the site.
from the 1600’s through
1820. Its collection of
furniture, ceramics,
textiles, metal work ad
art is exhibited in fift ?n
rooms and f ir
galleries. Arran ''d
chronologically, ae
rooms illustrate le
changes in inter )r
architecture, era s-
manship, taste and
culture of the early
South.
Trained guides tailor
the tours to fit the time
and particular interests
of visitors.
Information about
becoming a MEMBER
OF MESDA may be
obtained at the MESDA
and Old Salem reception
desks or by writing the
museum at Drawer F,
Salem Station, Winston-
Salem, North Carolina
27108.
Christmas
MUSEUM OF EARLY
SOUTHERN DECO
RATIVE ARTS
The unique museum,
popularly known as
MESDA, complements
Salem by presenting the
’decorative arts of other
s ctions of the South
Each year at
Christmas Old Salem,
incorporated sponsors a
Moravian Candle Tea at
the Brothers’ House.
The dates for 1979 are
November 29 and 30,
December 1, 6, 7 and 8
from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00
p.m. General admission
is $1. This is a wonderful
experience and a
traditional way of
ushering in the
Christmas Season.
Hours: Every day
except Christmas day
all year. Weekdays:
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sundays: 1:30 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Photo by Pam Snydrr
Home Moravian Church