This essay explores the significance of architectural production to the global operations of the Moravian Church, a curiously overlooked organisation within the annals of architectural history. The Moravians (dt: Herrnhuther Brüdergemeinde) are notable as a pre-Reformation non-state Pietistic community-officially renewed in Saxony in the early eighteenth century-that developed a largely self-funded and highly interconnected global network of settlements, mission stations and other institutions for over two centuries. Already in the early 1730s, the first Moravian missionaries left Saxony...
This essay explores the significance of architectural production to the global operations of the Moravian Church, a curiously overlooked organisation ...