Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
The Cornerstone of the Church Meeting Hall
The foundation of the original Kirchensaal (church meeting hall) was laid on May 12, 1724. The plaque on the cornerstone reads,
On the 12th (of) May 1724
was the laying of the foundation
of this first prayer-hall
in Herrnhut.
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This 12th (of) May 1824.
It was three years (1727) after the laying of the foundation of this prayer hall that a “prayer watch” was begun that lasted for over a hundred years. “By 1792, 65 years after commencement of that prayer vigil, the small Moravian community had sent 300 missionaries to the ends of the earth. Could it be that there is some relationship between these two facts?” (Christian History, p. 18).
