Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Historic District

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: The Moravians

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Christmas Candles and Lights

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Moravian Stars

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Community Putzes

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Religious Services

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Concerts

Although today people of many different ethnic and religious groups live in Bethlehem, the town’s historic ties with the Moravians give it its most distinctive Christmas customs. In addition to these customs, the town maintains a fine collection of colonial and early American buildings, including the Sun Inn, an establishment that dates back to colonial times and once hosted George and Martha Washington, as well as other famous patriots of the American Revolution. (For more on Christmas in Pennsylvania, see Christmas in Nineteenth-Century America; Amish Christmas; Barring Out the Schoolmaster.)