The Alleghany Mennonite Meetinghouse is located at 39 Horning Road in, Brcknock Township, Pennsylvania. The meetinghouse and its associated cemetery are significant for their role in the

Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radic ...

community in this area of Pennsylvania in the mid to late 19th century. The meetinghouse is significant for its

Pennsylvania German The Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Dutch: ), also known as Pennsylvania Germans, are a cultural group formed by German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. They emigrated primarily from German-spea ...

-style architecture. (45 pages, site plan and 23 photos, exterior and interior) The property was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

(NRHP) on June 6, 2009, and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the

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's weekly list of June 12, 2009.

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References

1855 establishments in Pennsylvania Churches in Berks County, Pennsylvania Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Mennonitism in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-church-stub