Details
Contributor Herline & Hensel, printer.
Hayes & Zell, publisher.
Title The original Moravian Church of 1742. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread St.) & Race St. [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 View of the first Moravian church building in Philadephia built 1742-1743 for the followers of Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian Church. Shows the hip-roof building with a front yard containing a path and a white picket fence in the background. Also shows a partial view of a nearby building. The church building, which was expanded and a parsonnage added, 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 49. [LCP Am 1857 Rit, 75004.0]
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 530
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 797. HSP copy hand-colored.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:6, uncolored.
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.9830.24]