| LC control no. | n 50040604 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Ephrata Cloister |
| Variant(s) | Society of Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata Ephrata Community German Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata Society of the Solitary Ephrata (Pa.). Ephrata Cloister |
| See also | Ephrata Cloister (Museum) Seventh Day German Baptist Brethren Snow Hill Cloister |
| Biography/History note | founded by Welsh Seventh-Day Baptists and German Baptists in 1728 |
| Found in | Das Gesäng der einsamen ... 1747. NUCMC data from Pa. Hist. & Mus. Comm. for Sachse, J.F. Collection of Ephrata materials, 1680-1931 (Ephrata Cloister; Ephrata, Pa., 1733-1896; mystical communal religious sect and commune formed by members of Seventh Day German Baptist Brethren; noted for fraktur, music & 18th c. imprints) Encycl. Amer. rel., 1987 (under: Seventh-Day Baptists: anindependent Sabbatarian church split off from American Seventh-Day Baptists under leadership of Johann Conrad Beissel; in 1732 Ephrata Cloister founded) Phone call to J. Kraft, Pa., Hist. & Mus. Comm. [former curator, Ephrata Cloister (Museum)], 1-26-90 (Ephrata Cloister; many variants including: Ephrata Community, German Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata; in 1708 groupof German Baptist Brethren came to Germantown, Pa., area under leadership of Alexander Mack; in 1720 J. Beissel arrived to join this group; later he became influenced by Seventh Day Baptists (R.I. group org. ca. 1671), and disagreeing with Germantown group in regards to Sat. Sabbath and celebacy issues, formed the Seventh Day German Baptist Brethren in 1728; in 1732 Ephrata Cloister founded to house the denomination; in 1814, Ephrata Cloister became legal corporate body under name: Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata; a sister church incorporated ca. 1823 as Seventh Day Baptist Church at Snow Hill (Franklin County, Pa.); best known by name Ephrata Cloister; continued as independent religious organization until 1934 when charter revoked by state of Pa.; sometimes known as Society of the Solitary; Seventh Day German Baptist Brethren is synonymous with Ephrata Cloister by technically 2 entities; other offshoot congregations formed but under various names, all associated with Ephrata; since 1941 has been restored and run as museum by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) |
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