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{{Short description|Historic location in Greenland}}
[[File:Neu-Herrnhut.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait of the New Herrnhut mission around 1770.]]
'''Old Nuuk''' may refer to several neighborhoods of [[Nuuk]], the capital of [[Greenland]].
'''Old Nuuk''' is a neighborhood of [[Nuuk]], the capital of [[Greenland]]. It was formerly the settlement of '''Neu-Herrnhut'''. It is part of the [[Nuuk Centrum]] district,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sermersooq.gl/da/borger/fysisk_planlaegning/lokalplaner_og_kommuneplantillaeg/lokalplaner_og_kommuneplantillaeg_for_nuuk.aspx |publisher=[[Sermersooq]] Municipality, Official Website |title=Lokalplaner og kommuneplantillæg for Nuuk |language=Danish |accessdate=13 July 2010}}</ref> located in the southwestern part of the town, facing the [[Nuup Kangerlua]] fjord. Several historical buildings are located in Old Nuuk:▼
The Lutheran mission was originally based on Hope Island at the head of the fjord but was moved to the mainland and christened '''Godthaab''' by the royal governor [[Claus Paarss]] in 1728.
* [[Statue of Hans Egede]]▼
Dotted with prefabricated, single-family houses, the neighborhood is also host to
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* Church of our Savior, the Lutheran [[Nuuk Cathedral]] (''Annaassisitta Oqaluffia'')
The [[Queen Ingrid's Hospital]] separates Nuuk Centrum and the other old part of Nuuk, the Noorliit area.
Noorliit was formerly the site of the [[Moravian missions in Greenland|Moravian mission]] of '''New Herrnhut''' ({{lang-de|Neu-Herrnhut}}; {{lang-da|Nye-Hernhut}}). The missionaries [[Matthias Stach|Matthaeus Stach]], [[Christian Stach]], and [[Christian David]] arrived in 1733 and had won enough converts to formally established the settlement in 1747.<ref>Brown, William. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn8XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA290 The History of Missions: Or, Of the Propagation of Christianity Among the Heathen, Since the Reformation]''. B. Coles V.D.M., 1816.</ref> It was named for the community established by the [[Nicolaus Zinzendorf|Count of Zinzendorf]] at [[Berthelsdorf]] in [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]] which became the center of the [[Moravian Church]]. The [[Moravian Brethren Mission House]] was raised the same year and was the first church to be constructed in Greenland (at that point, the Lutheran mission at Godthaab used a chapel within the main house).
The two missions operated differently and functioned as two separate settlements until the Moravian mission left Greenland in 1900.<ref>Wittman, P. "[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06777b.htm Greenland]". ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1909. Accessed 28 Apr 2012.</ref>
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{{wide image|Nuuk-herrnhut-house-view.jpg|1000px|alt=View from Herrnhut House|View from the Moravian Brethren Mission House to the east-south-east}}
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