Conestoga Mennonite Church (St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada)
The Conestoga Mennonite Church was the meetinghouse and name used by the St. Jacobs, Ontario, Mennonite Church before it moved to St. Jacobs in 1915. The first Conestogo meetinghouse was one of logs erected in 1844, followed by a frame building ca. 1852, both located on the east bank of the Conestoga River, 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of the village of St. Jacobs.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 668. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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