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The church in June 2013. Initially built as a log structure on its present-day site at 622 Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown in 1762, the original High German Evangelical Reformed Church building was replaced in 1773 with a simple brick structure, which was designed in a vernacular federal style and erected a few yards north of the first log church's location.
Boehm United Church of Christ, 571 Penllyn-Blue Bell Pk., Blue Bell: Marker Text: Founder of the German Reformed Church in Pa., subsequently known as the Reformed Church in the United States. From 1725 to 1740, he established twelve churches, requiring each to adopt a constitution which governed the voting rights of its members and created ...
The German Reformed remained under Dutch Reformed oversight until 1793, when the German Reformed adopted their own constitution. In the 1740s, Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf , bishop of the Moravian Church , visited Pennsylvania, with the hopes of uniting the German Lutherans and Reformed with the Moravians, which Boehm staunchly resisted.
Lancaster Theological Seminary is a seminary of the United Church of Christ in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1825 by members of the German Reformed Church in the United States to provide theological education for prospective clergy and other church leaders.
Members of the congregation who preferred German services formed the St. Thomas German Church. [2] The German Reformed church on Market Square experienced similar language conflicts and splintering, until its 1854 transformation into the Market Square Presbyterian Church. [17] Keller's stepson, the Rev. Charles W. Schaeffer, was pastor from ...
Mercersburg theology was a German-American theological movement that began in the mid-19th century. It draws its name from Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, home of Marshall College from 1836 until its merger with Franklin College (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) in 1853, and also home to the seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS) from 1837 until its relocation to Lancaster in 1871.
Sometime before 1797, a German Reformed church and school were established near the community of Shiremanstown in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It became known as the "Peace Church." Nearly one hundred years later, the log structure was still in use, but only as a school by that time.
Among immigrants from the 1600s and 1700s, those known as the Pennsylvania Dutch included Mennonites, Swiss Brethren (also called Mennonites by the locals) and Amish but also Anabaptist-Pietists such as German Baptist Brethren and those who belonged to German Lutheran or German Reformed Church congregations.