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Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ

Allentown, US

Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ

The High German Evangelical Reformed Church, also known as Zion Reformed, Zion United Church of Christ, and Resurrected Life Community Church (United Church of Christ) is an historic Evangelical and Reformed church building, located at 622 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehig

h Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War, the church was selected as the site to hide and protect the Liberty Bell from seizure as British troops prepared the Philadelphia campaign, designed to attack and occupy the revolutionary capital in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell was hidden beneath floor boards in the church for nine months, from September 1777 until the British ultimately departed Philadelphia in June 1778. Until 2023, the church housed the Liberty Bell Museum, established to honor the role that Allentown and Lehigh Valley-area American patriots played in guarding the Liberty Bell.

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