Moravian Society Berne

The Moravian Society in Berne can trace its beginnings back to the year 1739. It has thus existed for more than 275 years as an evangelical community within the Bernese Reformed Church.  Today it has about 40 members in the city and region of Berne. Its circle of friends is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Despite its relative smallness, the Society Berne plays a not insignificant role in the church and social life of the city, especially through its connection with the association "House of Religions - Dialogue of Cultures". In 2000, the Moravian pastor Hartmut Haas and his wife Friederike Kronbach-Haas were called to Berne by the church leadership to build up a new work there alongside the Society for the integration of people newly arrived in the city from all over the world. This was combined with the initiative to build a House of Religions, which was inaugurated at Europaplatz 1 in December 2014. Since then, the Moravian Society Berne, together with a congregation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, has found its home in the church room belonging to the House of Religions and organizes its worship meetings and other events there. She is also involved in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.