Nearly 300 Years Old, This Bookshop a Few Miles North of Souderton Is the Oldest in America

Established in 1745, the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem is the oldest continuously operating bookstore in the United States.

Just north of Montgomery County, twenty miles north of Souderton, the country’s oldest bookshop continues to offer incredible reading material for everyone.

The Moravian Book Shop, the official bookstore of Moravian University in nearby Bethlehem, was founded in 1745. Still in operation to this day, it is the oldest bookstore in the United States in continuous use, and the second oldest in the entire world…

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