EPHRATA CLOISTER, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA EPHEMERA HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA

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EPHRATA CLOISTER, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA EPHEMERA HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA
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The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds of the community are now owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
The community descended from the pietistic Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Germany. The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728—the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was the true Sabbath.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia