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Herrnhut House
Moravian Brethren Mission House or Herrnhut House () is a historical building in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, established in 1747 from timber shipped to the United Brethren from the Netherlands.Brown, William. The History of Missions: Or, Of the Propagation of Christianity Among the Heathen, Since the Reformation'. B. Coles V.D.M., 1816. It was the centre of the Moravian Brethren Mission in Greenland and the missionaries operated across the west coast of Greenland from this building. Greenlander converts were reported saying, "If it can be so beautiful here on Earth, how wonderful must it not be in Heaven."Del, Anden.''Grønland som del af den bibelske fortælling – en 1700-tals studie''" Greenland as Part of the Biblical Narrative – a Study of the 18th-Century" The building is current used as the office of the Ombudsman of Greenland ('Ombudsmanden for Inatsisartut'). Location The building is located on the southern outskirts of the Nuuk, west of Queen Ingrid's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Herrnhut Moravian Church
New Herrnhut Moravian Church is a historic Moravian Church, Moravian church in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The Moravians, a Protestant religious group based in the town of Herrnhut in Saxony, began missionary work in 1732 in St. Thomas and were the first Protestants to begin missionary work among slaves and free Blacks in the Danish West Indies. Missionary work on St. Thomas was initially opposed by planters who didn't want slaves to receive education or religious instruction. With . The Moravians purchased the New Herrnhut site (then Bazuinenberg or (in German:) Posaunenberg) in 1738 and established it as the Brethren's Plantation or the 's Heeren Tutu, until renaming it New Herrnhut in 1753. The 1867 San Narciso hurricane, hurricane of 1867 destroyed much of the then-working plantation, but the church and bell tower survived. The church, which is still in use, is a one-story building made of plaster and rubble, with a hipped roof and semi-elliptical arched windows and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuuk
Nuuk (; , formerly ) is the capital and most populous city of Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the territory's largest cultural and economic center. It is also the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality. In January 2025, it had a population of 20,113more than a third of the territory's populationmaking it one of the smallest capital cities in the world by population. The city was founded in 1728 by the Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede when he relocated from the earlier Hope Colony (), where he had arrived in 1721; the governor Claus Paarss was part of the relocation. The new colony was placed at the Inuit settlement of Nûk and was named ''Godthaab'' ("Good Hope"). "Nuuk" is the Greenlandic word for "cape" () and is commonly found in Greenlandic place names. It is so named because of its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea. Its latitude, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are full Danish nationality law, citizens of Denmark and European Union citizenship, of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Special territories of members of the European Economic Area#Overseas countries and territories, Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. It is the List of islands by area, world's largest island, and lies between the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world; Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's Northernmost point of land, northernmost undisputed point of land—Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moravian Missions In Greenland
The Moravian missions in Greenland (; ; ) were established by the Moravian Church or United Brethren and operated between 1733 and 1900. They were operated under the auspices of the Royal Danish College of Missions until its dissolution in 1859 and were finally surrendered to the Lutheran Church of Denmark in 1900. Missionaries were allocated to the region and sometimes even sent wives who had been chosen for them and approved by the drawing of lots, a form of Cleromancy. List of missions * Neu-Herrnhut (settled by Matthäus Stach, Christian Stach, and Christian David in 1733 and formally established in 1747 at modern Nuuk) * Lichtenfels (founded by Matthaeus Stach, Jens Haven, and Peter Haven in 1748, Lüdecke, Cornelia.East Meets West: Meteorological observations of the Moravians in Greenland and Labrador since the 18th century". ''History of Meteorology'' 2, 2005. 1754,Cranz, David & al. The History of Greenland: including an account of the mission carried on by the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Ingrid's Hospital
Queen Ingrid's Hospital () is the central hospital of Greenland. It is in Nuuk, the capital. The local health center, Queen Ingrid's Health Center, is an extension to the main hospital building, but operates separately from the hospital. In 2022 the health commission concluded that a new hospital was needed to replace the current one, which the Naalakkersuisut (Government of Greenland) has talked about since 2020. History The hospital opened in 1954 as a tuberculosis sanatorium called Queen Ingrid's Sanatorium, from which the hospital is nicknamed "Sana". It was named after Ingrid of Sweden, Ingrid, the queen of Denmark from 1947 to 1972. In 1961 the hospital got its status as the national hospital and its current name. Patients from every part of Greenland can be transferred there if their List of hospitals in Greenland, regional hospital cannot treat their illnesses. In March 2011 the local health center and a new national pharmacy was inaugurated. The design of the buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuup Kangerlua
Nuup Kangerlua is a long fjord in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It was formerly known by its colonial name as Godthaab Fjord (), Gilbert Sound and Baal's River.Nicoll, James. An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands'. Oliver & Boyd, 1840. Located by the island's capital, Nuuk, it is the longest fjord on the Labrador Sea coast of Greenland, and one of the longest in the inhabited part of the country. Geography The fjord head is located deep inland, with the fjord beginning as an icefjord at , with two glaciers draining the Greenland ice sheet () flowing into the fjord. Initially, the fjord flows to the northwest, to then turn southwest at , splitting into three arms in its lower run, with three large, mountainous islands in between the arms: Sermitsiaq Island with the Sermitsiaq mountain visible from most of Nuuk, Qeqertarsuaq Island, and Qoornuup Qeqertarsua Island. The fjord widens into a bay dotted wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skerry
A skerry ( ) is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low stack (geology), sea stack. A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. They are often used as resting places by animals such as Pinniped, seals and seabird, birds. Etymology The term ''skerry'' is derived from the Old Norse ', which means a small rocky island in the sea (which in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *''sker''-, "cut", in the sense of a rock cut off from the land). The Old Norse term ' was brought into the English language via the Scots language word spelled or . It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages' words for ''skerry'' – Icelandic language, Icelandic, , , , , found also in , , , , and (). In Scottish Gaelic, it appears as ', e.g. Sula Sgeir, in Irish language, Irish as '','' in Welsh language, Welsh as '','' and in Manx language, Manx as ''.'' Formatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God's Acre
God's Acre is a churchyard, specifically the burial ground. The word comes from the German word ''Gottesacker'' (''Field of God''), an ancient designation for a burial ground. The use of "Acre" is related to, but not derived from the unit of measurement and can be of any size. In the early 17th century the term was used as a translation of the German, but by the end of the century, it was accepted as an English term. American Congregationalist poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote an 1842 poem called "God's Acre" which referenced this term. While used to refer to graveyards generally in English, the term is used particularly among communicants of the Moravian Church in parts of North America, but not in the Moravian independent provinces of Alaska and Labrador/Newfoundland. In Christianity In England, prior to the 19th century, most parish churches were surrounded by a burial ground. Particularly in the 19th century, the churchyard was referred to by a number of gentle, les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churches In Greenland
Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice * Christian Church, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity Places United Kingdom * Church, a former electoral ward of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council that existed from 1964 to 2002 * Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward * Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward * Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward * Church, Lancashire, England United States * Church, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Church, Michigan, ghost town Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Church magazine'', a pastoral theology magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Nuuk
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moravian Churches
Moravian is the adjective form of the Czech Republic region of Moravia, and refers to people of ancestry from Moravia. Moravian may also refer to: * A member or adherent of the Moravian Church, one of the oldest Protestant Christian denominations * Moravia, the region * Moravians, people from Moravia * Moravian dialects, dialects of Czech spoken in Moravia, sometimes considered a distinct Moravian language * Moravané ("The Moravians"), a political party in the Czech Republic favouring the autonomy or independence of Moravia * Moravian Academy, a private school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania * Moravian University, a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania * An inhabitant of the Scottish Moray, especially the historic Mormaer of Moray See also * Moravia (other) * Moravian Serbia, one of the Serbian states that emerged from the collapse of the Serbian Empire in the 14th century * Moravian Wallachia, a cultural region in the eastern part of the Czech Republic * Moravian Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
