Details
Contributor Herline & Hensel, printer.
Hayes & Zell, publisher.
Title Interior of the lower audience chamber of the Moravian Church, of 1746. [graphic] / Lith. by Herline & Hensel, Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : Hayes & Zell, publ
Date [1857]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 14 x 22 cm. (5.5 x 8.75 in.)
Description Interior view of the lower audience chamber of the first Moravian church building in Philadephia built 1742-1743, and expanded in 1746 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church. Shows the pulpit, benches, gallery, a ten-plate stove in the middle of the room, a large chandelier suspended from the ceiling, and an organ in the center of the eastern gallery, opposite the pulpit. The church building, which was expanded and a parsonnage added in 1746, housed the congregation until 1819 and the erection of a new sanctuary.
Notes Published in Abraham Ritter’s History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 55. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0]
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 383
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797c
Subject Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Printer, Hayes & Zell, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Churches & Meetinghouses [P.9830.21]