Sunrise service

[2] Certain congregations of the Reformed and the Methodist traditions may either observe the Easter Vigil or hold a sunrise service.

The first Easter Sunrise Service recorded took place in 1732 in the Moravian congregation at Herrnhut in the Upper Lusatian hills of Saxony.

[5] Many churches in the American South still hold traditional sunrise services in cemeteries as a sign of recognition that Jesus no longer lay in the tomb on Easter morning.

[6] A famous Moravian sunrise service in the United States is that of the Salem Congregation in what is now Winston-Salem, NC, held annually since 1772.

[5] Brass choirs from twelve congregations, totaling over five hundred members,[5] play hymns antiphonally during the procession.

Sunrise service in Rockland, Maine
A four-trombone choir plays by torchlight on Easter Day , to announce the Moravian Easter Dawn Service in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania .
Easter Morning Sunrise Service on Jamestown Island , as seen on April 21, 2019