Acquisition and conversion of the Jeanguisboden
building belonging to the Evangelical Mennonite Community of Sonnenberg
The Foundation aims to create a museum and documentation centre in which all available elements of Anabaptist-Mennonite history are preserved, catalogued and made accessible to the public and researchers in form of exhibitions, loans, meetings, lectures or other historical and cultural events.
The Jeanguisboden Chapel, which already houses the Archives of the Swiss Mennonite Conference, is a suitable location from the Foundation’s point of view. The chapel is currently owned by the Sonnenberg community.
The Anabaptiste Heritage Foundation rents the “Jeanguisboden” building from the Sonnenberg Mennonite congregation in order to realize the foundation’s purpose.