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Welcome to the Ephrata Cloister, one of America's earliest religious communities, founded in 1732 by German settlers seeking spiritual goals, rather than earthly rewards. ... onrad Beissel, founder of Ephrata, was born in Eberbach am Neckar, Germany, in March 1691. His birth came at the end of a century of wars which...
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Ephrata Cloister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds of the comm...
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Johann Conrad Beissel founded a sequestered experiment in faith in 1732, with adherents living in a cloister near Ephrata, Pennsylvania ... Parallel to recounting the positive accomplishments of Conrad Beissel and the members of Ephrata Cloister, this document attempts to examine one aspect of the story which few...
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Founded in 1732, by Conrad Beissel, The Ephrata Cloister was one of America's earliest communal societies. Here Beissel and his followers lived quiet lives of prayer and charity.
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In spring, summer and fall, festivals and extravaganzas dot the landscape, and nowhere is the majesty of winter more evident than in the spectacular Christmas lights of the Ephrata Cloister. The eighteenth century communal society still breathes its stoic serenity across the minds of those who walk its restored perimeters.
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Ephrata Cloister, Attractions in Lancaster County.
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Studies in American Esotericism The Alchemy of the Voice at Ephrata Cloister Jan Stryz Michigan State University ... But under the direction of their founder and "Father," Conrad Beissel, the choral group at Ephrata cloister did engage in work that can be defined as alchemical. The principles that governed the composition...
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By the testimony of Peter Miller, then Prior of the Ephrata Cloister (see the Chronicon Ephratense, P. 203), it is seen that the Ephrata monastic houses were used in times of national stress for other than religious refugees.
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The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. ... The Ephrata Cloister had the second German printing press in the American colonies and also published the largest book in Colonial America.
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