The congregation that experienced the revival was primarily made up of Moravians, who because of religious persecution, were exiled from their homeland of Moravia in 1722 and moved to the Saxony estate of Count Nicolas Zinzendorf.

This map shows where the Moravian refugees fled from, and where they took up their new residence, in Saxony. 

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Initial Stages

Herrnhut Moravian Community

►A divided Christian refugee community in the village of Herrnhut was made up primarily of the Moravian Church of the Brethren. With them were also Lutherans, …