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The Mennonite Heritage Center is a museum, library and exhibition space in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, United States, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Philadelphia, about the Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania.
The Alleghany Mennonite Meetinghouse is located at 39 Horning Road in, Brecknock Township, Pennsylvania. The meetinghouse and its associated cemetery are significant for their role in the Mennonite community in this area of Pennsylvania in the mid to late 19th century. The meetinghouse is significant for its Pennsylvania German-style ...
The Mennonite Meetinghouse (Germantown Mennonite Church) is an historic, American Mennonite church building that is located at 6119 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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Communauté Mennonite au Congo (86,600 members) [125] Old Order Mennonites (60,000 to 80,000 members in the U.S., Canada and Belize) Mennonite Church USA (about 62,000 members in the United States) [126] Kanisa La Mennonite Tanzania (50,000 members in 240 congregations) Conservative Mennonites (30,000 members in over 500 U.S. churches) [127]
The Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, also called Wenger Mennonites, is the largest Old Order Mennonite group to use horse-drawn carriages for transportation. Along with the automobile, they reject many modern conveniences , while allowing electricity in their homes and steel-wheeled tractors to till the fields.
The Vincent Mennonite Church retains ownership of the cemetery at their original building. Locally, the cemetery is known as Rhoad's Burying Ground. [2] Many of the grave markers date as far back as 1759. [2] Given the time period, the grounds may also have been used for the burials of former owner John Roth, who died in 1738, and his wife. [3]
The Hess Homestead, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a historic Mennonite farmstead near the town of Lititz. The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, [ 1 ] who purchased the land from William Penn 's sons in 1735.