Unitarian Universalists - Gettysburg, PA
N 39° 49.735 W 077° 13.731
18S E 309263 N 4411146
Simple brick church built in 1905 finds itself in the Gettysburg historic district.
Waymark Code: WMA0R1
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/27/2010
Views: 5
After deciphering the large, gray cornerstone which was obscured by the down spout, I was able to determine this used to be a an old German Baptist Brethren church. The Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB) descended from a pietist movement in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, when Alexander Mack founded a fellowship with seven other believers. There are only 5 active churches today in PA, and this is not one of them.
The building is very plain and modest, almost as if it was built by Quakers. It is a one room, rectangular building with an addition, sided, on the rear. I thought the windows were kind of interesting with their tops coming to a point like the top of an isosceles triangle. The website is interesting but yields zero information on the history of this one hundred five-year old church.
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