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{{Infobox NRHP<br />
| name = Graceham Moravian Church and Parsonage<br />
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| image = GracehamMoravianChGracehamMD-2.jpg<br />
| caption = July 14, 1996<br />
| nearest_city = [[Thurmont, Maryland]]<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|39|36|59|N|77|22|43|W|display=inline,title}}<br />
| locmapin = Maryland#USA<br />
| built = {{Start date|1749}}<br />
| added = May 13, 1976<br />
| area = {{convert|15|acre}}<br />
| refnum = 76000995<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><br />
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'''Graceham Moravian Church and Parsonage''' is a historic church building and [[parsonage]] located at 8231 Rocky Ridge Road, [[Maryland Route 77|MD 77]] in [[Graceham, Maryland|Graceham]], east of [[Thurmont, Maryland|Thurmont]], [[Frederick County, Maryland]]. It is a two-story [[Flemish bond]] brick church built in 1822, and covered with white stucco because of deteriorated masonry. The church was built as an addition to the adjacent meeting house and parsonage built in 1797. This building and the church's cemetery having uniform flat gravestones (called God's Acre by the Moravians) represents Maryland's only remaining 18th century [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] settlement.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Moravian Church originated in [[Bohemia]] and [[Moravia]] in the 1400s, with the first Moravians settling in North America in the 1700s. The first Moravian settlements were in Pennsylvania, but Moravians began to move south to Maryland, Virginia, and [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Salem, North Carolina]]. The Moravians who settled in Maryland were one of the groups to move south during the mid-1700s, travelling from Pennsylvania to Maryland via an [[Great Indian Warpath|Indian road]].<ref name="mht_ihp">{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-372.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Graceham Moravian Church and Parsonage|date=May 1975|accessdate=2016-01-01 |author=George J. Andreve|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}</ref><br />
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The Graceham congregation was formally organized by Bishop [[:de:Matthäus Gottfried Hehl|Matthaeus Gottfried Hehl]] on October 8, 1758, as "Manakosy" (Monocacy) Moravian Church.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Oerter|first=A. L.|date=1913|title=Graceham, Frederick County, Md. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH|journal=Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society|volume=9, No. 3/4|issue=3/4|pages=119–305|jstor=41179664}}</ref> Their first place of worship, a ''Gemeinhaus'' (English: "congregation house"), had been constructed in 1749. A second church edifice was dedicated on October 16, 1773, before being replaced by the current edifice that was dedicated on October 27, 1822.<ref>Provincial Elders Conference of the Moravian Church in North America, Congregations Book [MSS.], vol. 1, p. 31, preserved at the [https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania].</ref> The official name change of the village took place in 1785, following the recommendation of Johannes von Watteville, who wrote (transl.), "May this village be a ''hamlet'', or little town of the Lord's, in which ''grace'' abides, with simplicity and a childlike spirit,"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Oerter|first=A. L.|date=1913|title=Graceham, Frederick County, Md. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH|journal=Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society|volume=9, No. 3/4|issue=3/4|pages=156|jstor=41179664}}</ref> hence the name Graceham.<br />
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It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1976.<ref name="nris"/><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:GracehamMoravianChGracehamMD.jpg<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Commons category|Graceham Moravian Church and Parsonage}}<br />
*{{MHT url|id=374|title=Graceham Moravian Church, Frederick County}}, including photo from 2006, at Maryland Historical Trust<br />
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Maryland}}<br />
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[[Category:Churches in Frederick County, Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Czech-American culture in Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:History of the America (North) Province of the Moravian Church]]<br />
[[Category:Moravian churches in the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Pennsylvania Dutch culture in Maryland]]<br />
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