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Zoar, Newfoundland and Labrador

Coordinates: 56°07′59″N 61°23′02″W / 56.133°N 61.384°W / 56.133; -61.384
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Zoar was a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was settled in 1865 as one of several Moravian Church missions to the Inuit in Labrador, on the so-called "Moravian Coast," but was abandoned in 1889, one of the first such communities to be abandoned.[1]


Zoar in the 1890s

References

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  1. ^ "The Moravian Church".

56°07′59″N 61°23′02″W / 56.133°N 61.384°W / 56.133; -61.384