World Heritage Tour

World Heritage Tour Overview

Explore the 26th World Heritage Site in the United States, Moravian Church Settlements – Bethlehem on this one-hour tour.

Moravian Church Settlements – Bethlehem, inscribed on July 26, 2024 is approximately 10 acres, includes 9 buildings, 4 ruins, and a cemetery. Bethlehem along with Christiansfeld, Denmark (inscribed in 2015); Gracehill, Northern Ireland/UK; and Herrnhut, Germany makes up the Moravian Church Settlements inscription.

This comprehensive tour of Moravian Church Settlements – Bethlehem’s buildings and sites, focuses on the approximately two square block area of Historic downtown Bethlehem that the Moravian settlers recognized as the center of their community and the living heritage and traditions that these Moravian Church Settlements still carry out today.

Follow the Moravian’s history beginning at the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem housed in the 1741 Gemeinhaus, the only 18th century Moravian Gemeinhaus still in existence in the world. Next, visit the Bell House Courtyard, to see the 1746-49 Bell House, the First Single Brethren’s House/the Single Sisters’ House, and the 1768 Widows’ House. Following this, step inside the 1751 Old Chapel and the 1803-06 Central Moravian Church Sanctuary before heading off to walk through God’s Acre Cemetery. The tour concludes on Main Street, with point-outs of the 1748 Second Single Brethren’s House, the 1761 Tannery and 1762 Waterworks in the Colonial Industrial Quarter.

After your tour concludes, you are able to return to the Moravian Complex for a more in-depth tour of the Moravian Museum.