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Gracehill -Where Time Stands Still |
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Step back 200 years within 200 yards of a Ballymena roundabout…
If you drive northwards out of Belfast, along the M2 for around 45 minutes, you come to the outskirts of Ballymena. Once off the modern motorway, a maze of small roundabouts flank recently mass-produced, red bricked houses.
However, as you turn off the Galgorm road into Cennick road, you are greeted with a beautifully preserved, picturesque, Moravian village. More than 200 years peel away and you instantly feel affected by the atmosphere of the place.
In 1975, Gracehill was designated a Conservation Area. A first for Northern Ireland, it is considered important by virtue of both its architectural and its historic interest. It is a place where the buildings and the spaces around them interact to form a cohesive and distinct town.
Although not the oldest of the Moravian congregations in Northern Ireland, Gracehill is regarded as the "Mother Church "because it was the only full scale "Settlement" built by the Moravians in Ireland.
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