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Ephrata Cloister | |
 Women's Building and Meetinghouse | |
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| Location | Jct. of US 322 and 272, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Area | 30 acres (12 ha) |
| Built | 1732 |
| NRHP reference No. | 67000026[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 24, 1967[1] |
| Designated NHL | December 24, 1967[3] |
| Designated PHMC | March 18, 1947[2] |
| Part of a series on the |
| Schwarzenau Brethren (the German Baptists or Dunkers) |
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| Background |
| Doctrinal tenets |
| People |
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Defunct groups |
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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.
Marie Kachel Bucher, the last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister, died on July 27, 2008, at the age of 98.[4]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "PHMC Historical Markers". Historical Marker Database. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ "Ephrata Cloister". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
- ^ "Obituary of Marie Elizabeth Kachel Bucher". Intelligencer Journal. July 29, 2008. Archived from the original on July 31, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2008.