World's Oldest Protestant Church Moravian Christmas Eve Barn

The Moravian Church, the World's oldest Protestant denomination, holds its Christmas Eve in the Delaware County, Ohio, Bicentennial Barn. The Moravian Church is 550 years old in the year 2007. It began before Martin Luther.

The Moravian Church's religious heritage began in the 14th century. The movement was started by Jan Hus, who objected to some of the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. He wanted to steer the church in Bohemia and Moravia to the simpler practices of early Christianity.

The movement was successful for a while, but eventually forced to be under the authority of Rome. Hus was burned at the stake. Within a few years of his martyrdom, some of his followers became independently organized into the Bohemian Brethren, which began in Kunvald, Bohemia, in 1457.

These Protestants had rebelled against Rome more than a hundred years before Martin Luther. Moravia or Bohemia are provinces of the Czech Republic. Worldwide there are three-quarters of a million Moravians. They are a mainstream Protestant denomination. In the US., the Moravians are often found in Pennsylvania, especially Bethlehem, and North Carolina. The first Moravian settlement in the US was in Savannah, Georgia, in 1735.

The Christmas Eve ceremony for the Columbus, Ohio, Promise Church was held in a barn to commemorate Christ's birth in a manger of a barn.

The Delaware County Bicentennial barn is over 100-years old and on a family farm of approximately 200-years. It was painted as a project to commemorate Ohio's 200 th birthday, bicentennial.

Christmas 20007 was also the date of the full moon. The moon was setting at sunrise (which shows that it is truly full) as seen at the end of the video. The big buck shown at the end of the video is injured. He has stayed alive for quite a long time, and I've photographed him a number of times, such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gg8I_2sbXg

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[richyrik1]

how could you know if thats the oldest church....cus it looks like you guys just fixed it...so it doesn't look old to me..just saying....no hating

[IrenaScott]

@richyrik1 We meant the Moravian Church, not the barn. It began in Bohemia and Moravia over 550 years ago.

[TheLbb2]

@armando1955ify The video iz pf a 'store-haus'

made worship & harvest ready.

@ kidri01 The vid. comemorates the 'people', not that particular steeple,

[creolebuay69]

This bring back a lot of memories seeing the "STAR OF DAVID". I'm also a Moravian from Bluefields, Nicaragua. I can recall walking thru the sidewalks of Bluefields with my cousin from Beholden and Old Bank neighbourhoods ( I lived in New York neighbourhood with my grandmother) and greeting other moravians a enjoying the different kinds of stars and colors, mostly 5 pointed stars up on the porches or varandas as we call them. Thanks for sharing.

[gwolb]

@canadacub No the Lutheran Church began in 1519 and the Moravian Church began in 1457 thus making the Moravian Church the oldest Protestant religion.

[canadacub]

Wouldn't the Lutheran denomination be the oldest?

[rezzflexxUNSPOKEN]

@kidri0t if you go to germany you would find a moravian church thats in a cave...when they were hiding for fear of persecution....they preserved it so its like a museum now...but...#imjustsayin

[karpov89]

@armando1955ify Why sect, they seem to sing and have fun?

[armando1955ify]

this is not a church it Sect building.

[IAMJESUSmovie]

Jesus Christ has returned. I AM.