New Sarepta, Alberta

New Sarepta is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada, within Leduc County. It is located approximately 23km east of the City of Leduc along Highway 21. New Sarepta dissolved from village status to become a hamlet on September 1, 2010. It originally incorporated as a village on January 1, 1960. HistoryNameThe ancient Phoenician city of Sarepta was located on the Mediterranean coast of today's Lebanon, approximately at the site of the modern village of Sarafand, between Sidon and Tyre. Sarepta was also mentioned, as Zarephath, in the Old Testament (I Kings 17: 9), as the home of Elijah during a drought and famine. In the 18th century (1765-1773), Moravian Brethren from Germany established the village of Sarepta, Volgograd, Russia. About a century after its founding, the larger German Lutheran Church in Russia began efforts to take Sarepta under its wing. Many of the Moravian Brethren objected, moving elsewhere in Russia, then choosing to emigrate to the Western Hemisphere, including Canada.

New Sarepta is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada, within Leduc County. It is located approximately 23km east of the City of Leduc along Highway 21. New Sarepta dissolved from village status to become a hamlet on September 1, 2010. It originally incorporated as a village on January 1, 1960. HistoryNameThe ancient Phoenician city of Sarepta was located on the Mediterranean coast of today's Lebanon, approximately at the site of the modern village of Sarafand, between Sidon and Tyre. Sarepta was also mentioned, as Zarephath, in the Old Testament (I Kings 17: 9), as the home of Elijah during a drought and famine. In the 18th century (1765-1773), Moravian Brethren from Germany established the village of Sarepta, Volgograd, Russia. About a century after its founding, the larger German Lutheran Church in Russia began efforts to take Sarepta under its wing. Many of the Moravian Brethren objected, moving elsewhere in Russia, then choosing to emigrate to the Western Hemisphere, including Canada.