God’s Acre

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God’s Acre is a traditional term, especially used by Moravian and some Protestant communities, for a church-owned burial ground regarded as consecrated resting place for the dead.

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God’s-Acre 2
Gods Acre 1
God’s Acre canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf burial ground
cemetery
religious site
associatedWithDenomination Moravian
Protestant
associatedWithReligion Christianity
hasAlternativeName God’s Acre
surface form: Gods Acre

churchyard
hasBurialPractice equality in death
graves often arranged in rows
separation of graves by sex in some Moravian traditions
simple grave markers
hasCharacteristic church-owned
communal burial ground
consecrated
hasConceptualization part of the worshiping community
resting place of the congregation
hasCulturalRole expression of Christian belief in resurrection
hasEtymologyForm Gottesacker
hasEtymologyLanguage German
hasEtymologyMeaning God’s field
hasHistoricalUse burial of church members
hasLanguageUsage English religious terminology
hasLocationType adjacent to church
within church property
hasNotableUsageRegion Europe
North America
hasRelatedConcept cemetery
churchyard
graveyard
hasReligiousFunction consecrated resting place for the dead
hasSymbolism field belonging to God
ownedBy church
usedBy Unity of the Brethren
surface form: Moravian Church

Protestant communities

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Stephen Foster notableWork God’s Acre
this entity surface form: Massa's in de Cold Ground
Ballads and Other Poems containsPoem God’s Acre
this entity surface form: God’s-Acre
Voices of the Night hasPart God’s Acre
this entity surface form: God’s-Acre
God’s Acre hasAlternativeName God’s Acre
this entity surface form: Gods Acre