Home Moravian Church Candle Tea - 2026

Ticket purchases are non-refundable. See information about weather cancellation below. If you make a mistake or have other questions about your reservation, please email us at info@candletea.org.

Arrive 15 minutes prior to your ticketed time to allow time to check in with the guide.

• Regular Tea = check in at the front door of the Single Brothers’ House
• School or Scout Groups = check in at the back door of the Single Brothers’ House

You may be asked to show your email confirmation so please have ready if needed.

A time-ticketed group of 30 individuals is admitted every 15 minutes. Admission numbers are strictly limited by the Fire Code.

Reservations are highly recommended as tickets will sell out.  We will be able to accommodate walk-ups.  There may be a slight wait, but all can generally be admitted.

• Please note we are all volunteers.  We do our very best to stay on time but sometimes groups can move through the house a little slower. Thus, slowing down your admittance time and we don’t want anyone to feel rushed on the stairs.  Your patience is greatly appreciated!

Regular Candle Tea Reservations

These are full-length tours that include an introduction, carol singing in the Saal accompanied by the 1787 pipe organ, candle-making demonstration with opportunity to purchase, the historic kitchen with coffee and sugar cake, the Putz (miniature historic Salem scene) and the Nativity. Total time approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Admission for Regular Tea:

• General admission, $9
• Children 3-12, $5
• Children 3 and under, free (no ticket required)

Dates and Start Times

• Reservations only (walk-ups available as space allows)
• Thurs., Dec. 3rd and Fri., Dec. 4th:  Open from 1:00pm – 7:30pm
• Sat., Dec. 5th:  Open from 10:30am – 7:30pm
• Thurs., Dec. 10th and Fri., Dec. 11th:  Open from 1:00pm – 7:30pm
• Sat., Dec. 12th:  Open from 11:30am – 7:30pm

Note About Handicap Accessibility: The Single Brother’s House is NOT handicapped accessible. It is a designated Historic Building and does not have an elevator. There are steps leading up to the front door and at the rear entrance. There are three steep flights of stairs to go up and down during your tour. Baby strollers must be left in the entrance room and retrieved at the end of your tour.

Candle Tea is not responsible for accidents or incidents beyond our control.  Candle Tea follows the inclement weather policy of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School system.  Should school be cancelled or dismissed early due to bad weather, Candle Tea will CLOSE ONLY FOR THE SCHOOL TOUR MORNING SESSIONS.  Candle Tea will monitor the weather in the event we have to close earlier for the regular tours during the week.  You will be notified via email (to the person who secured your tickets), on the Candle Tea website and by our Social Media posts.  If bad weather is predicated on either of the two Saturday’s, you will be notified the same way as above.  Ticket holders will be notified about their options at that point.  

Old Salem: Tours of Old Salem, including their tour of the Single Brother’s House are handled by Old Salem, Inc. and are completely separate from the Candle Tea. To schedule an Old Salem tour on the same day you visit Candle Tea, contact Old Salem at Visit the Old Salem website, or call 336-721-7350. Please note there are different unloading places for Candle Tea and for tours of Old Salem.

Candle Tea is held in the Single Brothers’ House (SBH), 600 S. Main St., at the corner of South Main and Academy Streets. Passenger unloading / loading is not permitted on Academy Street next to the SBH. The general public enters the tour from the South Main Street entrance. School and Scout groups enter from the back. Please look for signs to bus and car parking areas.

Public parking is available on streets in Old Salem and in the lot bounded by Salt Street, West Street and Old Salem Road.

Additional parking may be available in the grass lot on Academy Street just across Old Salem Road from Old Salem.

Parking for Old Salem visitors is available in the Visitor Center lot off Old Salem Road. Main Street between Academy and West streets is closed to traffic during Candle Tea.

Public restrooms are available in the Visitor Center, behind the Boys School at Academy and Main streets, and behind the Muddy Creek Cafe off West Street just below Main. There are NO public restrooms in the Single Brothers House.

For more information email us or call 336-749-9463.

Guests of all ages delight in seeing the Candle Tea Putz (pronounced “puts”). A –  Putz from the German word putzen, meaning “to decorate” – is any scene created around a Nativity scene and is a traditional Christmas decoration for both early and modern Moravians.

The Candle Tea Putz is displayed in two parts. The first is a 30-foot-long replica in miniature of the town of Salem as it looked more than a century ago on a snowy Christmas Eve. The small buildings and houses are made of balsa wood and cardboard, constructed to scale, and painted to look like the real structures in Salem. The snow-covered scene is complete with small lights glowing through tiny windows and street lamps. The snow is created from marble dust sprinkled over the trees, houses, and vehicles. Throughout the town, small figures are busy taking laundry off the line, chopping firewood and running the water wheel at the mill. Small figures of deer and cows are seen in unusual places.

The second part of the Candle Tea Putz is the Nativity scene. Guests view the Nativity, graced with large hand-carved figures made in Germany and donated to the Candle Tea in 1961, as the Christmas Story is read from scripture. Each scene in the story is lighted separately.

For more information, email us or call 336-749-9463.

We look forward to seeing you at Candle Tea!