Historic Moravian Bethlehem
UNESCO World Heritage Site — Moravian Church Settlements · Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The settlement founded on Christmas Eve 1741 by Moravians from Herrnhut in Saxony, who built a planned communal town on the Lehigh with shared industry, shared housing by age and sex, and a burial ground where every marker lies flat and identical because the dead are equal. In 2024 it was inscribed by UNESCO as part of the transnational Moravian Church Settlements World Heritage Site, alongside Herrnhut in Germany, Christiansfeld in Denmark and Gracehill in Northern Ireland. A mile downhill, the blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel stand over an arts campus, which makes this a town with two entirely separate reasons to visit.
66 West Church Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 18018, United States
The historic streets, God's Acre and the Colonial Industrial Quarter grounds are open and free at all times. Museum buildings and guided tours keep daytime hours, generally Thursday to Sunday with a reduced winter schedule and a fuller programme in December. SteelStacks and the Hoover-Mason Trestle are free and open daily. Musikfest runs ten days in August; Christkindlmarkt runs weekends from late November.
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