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.

Welcome

In the House of Religions

  • Ecumenical midday prayer, every Wednesday, 12:15 p.m. for about 20 minutes.
  • Bible reading in the House of Religions,  18 October, 17:30-18:45. Topic: "Back to the roots?! Religion and roots"
  • 15 October, 5 p.m. Ecumenical celebration with texts by the mystic Teresa of Avila, followed by aperitif.

Moravian Services:

  • Sunday, 1 October, 5 p.m. with Frieder Vollprecht.
  • Sunday, 29 October, 4 pm (time change!) with Frieder Vollprecht.

Society´s evening

  • Friday, 20 October, 5 p.m., after an aperitif, Sister Alay Gonzalez from Cuba and Sister Gabriele Huaman Davila from Peru will report on two branches of the worldwide Herrnhut work.

 

Unsere Heimat - das Haus der Religionen

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Im Haus der Religionen am Europaplatz in Bern hat auch die Herrnhuter Sozietät ihre Heimat.

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Einmal pro Monat trifft sich die Sozietät zu einem Gottesdienst in Herrnhuter Tradition.

Gottesdienst der Herrnhuter Sozietät Bern

Der Kirchenraum im Haus der Religionen wird nicht nur von den Herrnhutern, sondern auch von der äthiopischen Gemeinde genutzt, deshalb findet sich auch eine farbenfrohe Ikonostase in ihm. Wer gern mehr darüber erfahren möchte, kann hier eine Broschüre herunterladen.

Das Haus der Religionen ist barrierefrei.

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Die Ikonostase im Kirchenraum. Foto: Hartmut Haas.

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Die Geburt Jesu, dargestellt im Kirchenraum. Foto: Harmut Haas.

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Ansprechperson

Pfarrer Frieder Vollprecht
Leimenstr. 10
CH-4055 Basel
Tel. 061 272  74 12

vollprecht@herrnhuter.ch