| LC control no. | n 50072584 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania |
| Variant(s) | Watch Tower Society Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania Jehovah's Witnesses |
| See also | Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York International Bible Students Association Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society |
| Beginning date | 1884 |
| Located | Allegheny (Pa.) Pittsburgh (Pa.) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Warwick (N.Y.) |
| Found in | Organized to accomplish our ministry, c1983: verso of t.p. (copr. by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; publishers: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.; International Bible Students Association; Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.) p. 26 (ministry is carried out by certain agencies or legal entities; the principal corporation is the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; est. 1884) p. 27 (Watch Tower Society has established branches in various countries; in compliance with local govt. regulations, a number of other religious societies have been legally formed, such as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (1909) and the International Bible Students Association in London, England (1914); these and other legal corporations are used by the modern-day Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses to carry out its work) Stroup, H.H. The Jehovah's Witnesses, 1945: p. 21 (work of the Jehovah's Witnesses is conducted by 3 organizations formed chiefly for the holding property and publishing; 1st is the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, incorporated in 1884 as Zion's Watch Tower Society; the Pennsylvania corp. is the best known among Witnesses themselves since in it are counted all who give money; although it maintains a mailing office in Pittsburgh, its headquarters are in Brooklyn) "Look! I am making all things new", c1959: p. 2 of cover (Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania) Reachout Trust www site, 21 Feb. 2007: The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and the New Covenant page (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is the official title of the organisation to which Jehovah's Witnesses belong. Its sister corporation, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Inc. of New York (Society) prints all the material that Jehovah's Witnesses distribute) Wikipedia, March 25, 2019 (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; formed in Allegheny, PA in 1884; Allegheny was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907; moved to Brooklyn in 1909; headquarters moved from Brooklyn to Warwick, N.Y. in 2010) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Tower_Bible_and_Tract_Society_of_Pennsylvania> |
| Not found in | BL auth. file, 21 Feb. 2007 (ref.: Jehovah's Witnesses) |
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