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Historic Bethlehem & Sites offering new World Heritage Tours
February 18th, 2025 | In The News
Visitors to Historic Bethlehem will have the opportunity to embark on the new World Heritage Tour led by Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites (HBMS) guides.
The tour is a 90-minute guided walking tour and will take place every Saturday at 2 p.m., according to HBMS.
Tickets for the tour are $25 and available now at HBMS’s website or 1-800-360-TOUR.
HBMS says, as a thank you to the Lehigh Valley’s residents; residents of Lehigh and Northampton counties will receive 20% off ($5 off) the cost of any tour tickets purchased between now and March 31.
Lehigh Valley residents should use Promo Code LVWH2025 to take advantage of the special offer, says HBMS.
“The City of Bethlehem and our World Heritage partners at Moravian University, Bethlehem Area Moravians, Central Moravian Church and Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites are thrilled to invite the residents of the Lehigh Valley to explore our World Heritage site,” said City of Bethlehem Mayor J. William Reynolds. “The World Heritage Tour celebrates our rich history, culture and shared human heritage.”
The World Heritage Tour, will focus on an approximately two-square-block area in Bethlehem where the Moravians established their settlement in the 1740s, says HBMS.
HBMS says it will give guests the opportunity to go inside the 1741 Gemeinhaus, 1751 Old Chapel and 1803-1806 Central Moravian Church Sanctuary, three of the buildings that are included in Moravian Church Settlements–Bethlehem, which is the newest World Heritage site in the United States.
In addition, they will see all of the other buildings and sites included in the approximately 10-acre World Heritage site, the 26th in the nation, HBMS states.
HBMS says the World Heritage Tours will begin at the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, 66 W. Church St., Bethlehem, and are led by a HBMS docent dressed in period attire.
During the tour, attendees will visit the 1741 Gemeinhaus, the Moravians’ community house and first place of worship in Bethlehem. The 1741 Gemeinhaus has the distinction of being the oldest building in Bethlehem and the only 18th-century Moravian Gemeinhaus still in existence in the world.
Read the article on the WFMZ website.
