LehighValleyNews.com | By Will Oliver
Published October 17, 2024 at 6:52 PM EDT
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — It’s a first of its kind.
Officials with Moravian Church Settlements – Bethlehem on Thursday joined three international World Heritage Site partners and dignitaries from all over the world to host the first-ever transnational inscription ceremony, right here in the Christmas City.
“We oftentimes in Moravian history bring out that we were the first in this or the first in that: Moravian University is the sixth oldest university in America, the first to educate women in the colonies, we had the first water mill, we had the first steeple — those kinds of things,” said Moravian University President Bryon Grigsby, a member of the World Heritage Council and Commission. “But this was 300 years in the making.