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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.
Tipton was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Solomon Tipton and Elizabeth Kitzmiller; he was a firstborn child and had seven siblings. From the age of twelve, Tipton studied photography as the apprentice of Charles John Tyson (1838-1906) and Isaac G. Tyson (1833-1913), who were among the earliest Gettysburg photographers.
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The River Brethren are a group of historically related Anabaptist Christian denominations originating in 1770, during the Radical Pietist movement among German colonists in Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 17th century, Mennonite refugees from Switzerland had settled their homes near the Susquehanna River in the northeastern United States.
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 ...
Funck arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with his family and other German Palatines, seeking a place to freely practice their Mennonite faith, including Dielman Kolb (1691–1756), who became an early Mennonite minister in Pennsylvania. [3] [4] During 1719, he settled in Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In about 1720, Funck ...
Because of growth of the Weavertown congregation, three daughter congregations have been established over the years: two in Lancaster County — Pequea (pronounced "peck way") Amish Mennonite Church in 1962, and Mine Road Amish Mennonite Church in 1969; another daughter congregation was established in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 2000 ...
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]