God's Acre Moravian cemetery Old Salem North Carolina
by Carol Montoya
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God's Acre Moravian cemetery Old Salem North Carolina
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Carol Montoya
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Pyrography - Photography
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God's Acre Moravian cemetery in Old Salem North Carolina
God's Acre is part of Old Salem and is the cemetery for the 12 churches of the Salem Congregation of the Moravian Church. God's Acre continues one of the oldest and disappearing traditions of the Moravian Church, the burials of people by “choir system, dating back to the Moravians’ centuries: single brothers, single sisters, married brothers, married sisters.
The gravestones of the more than 7,000 men, women, and children buried here. God’s Acre consists of row upon row of simple, flat markers of white marble bears only the name of the deceased, the dates of birth and death, and perhaps a short verse of scripture or a heartfelt tribute to the pilgrim buried beneath it.
“In a Moravian graveyard, you won’t see one gravestone larger than another or elevated,” Sides says. “They’re all flat and recumbent. It’s not about status or wealth. It’s not about one person being more important in the eyes of God. We all are embraced by God fully in death.”
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