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Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.
When the Bethlehem Female Seminary became the Moravian Female Seminary in 1785, it restructured its curriculum into five categories. These subjects were spiritual and moral guidance, intellectual and cultural pursuits, vocational training, social cultivation, and physical exercise. [4]
The American Moravian Church sponsors Moravian College and Seminary, recognized as the sixth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The largest concentration of Moravians today is in Tanzania. The motto of the Moravian church is: (in Latin) In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
The Moravian Messenger, periodical of the British Province; Moravian History Magazine – published within the British Province but deals with the work worldwide. Journal of Moravian History [46] – scholarly journal, published by the Moravian Archives [47] in Bethlehem, PA, and the Moravian Historical Society [48] in Nazareth, PA.
Moravian Academy is a preschool through 12th-grade independent, co-educational, college preparatory school in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Moravian Academy is the ninth oldest independent school in the United States.
The Moravian Church in Jamaica founded and continues to oversee nearly 50 educational establishments at all levels, including Bethlehem Moravian College (formerly Bethlehem Teacher Training College), the first in Jamaica. [2] The Lititz All Age School in St. Elizabeth is the successor to the first primary school established in Jamaica.
Salem was founded in 1772 by early Moravian settlers who held the view that girls deserved an education comparable to that afforded boys. Among the town's early residents were 16 girls and women who traveled, mostly on foot, around 500 miles from Bethlehem, Province of Pennsylvania, to join the new community.
Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society-a publication that ran in volumes from 1868 to 2000. Journal of Moravian History-a biannual publication and expanded version of Transactions, created in 2006 in collaboration with the Moravian Archives and now published by Pennsylvania State University Press. It features scholarly articles ...