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First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran congregation in Albany, New York.Founded in 1649 as Ebenezer Lutheran Church, First Lutheran is the oldest congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, [1] the only congregation in the ELCA to be founded while New York was under control of the Dutch, [2] and the oldest Lutheran congregation in the United States.
Trinity Church - Lutheran (1729-1776), Broadway, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1643 by Dutch Lutherans in New Amsterdam but the church was not chartered until December 6, 1664, when the new governor, Richard Nicolls, issued a charter after the British had taken control of the colony in April 1664. [2]
Starting in 1640, the Lutheran Church in New Netherlands had formed two Lutheran congregations in New York City and Albany by about 1690. The missionary Justus Falckner oversaw expansion starting in the early 18th century, resulting in 14 congregations under his care. His successor, Wilhelm Christoph Berkenmeyer, created an assembly of pastors ...
St. Mark's Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church on Main Street in Guilderland Center, Albany County, New York. It was built in 1872 in a vernacular Italianate style. It has curved arched windows and a bracketed cornice. It features a square bell tower with pedimented cornice and steeple. [2] St.
The complex consists of the original German Lutheran church structure constructed in 1859 and later remodeled into a school; the eclectic Gothic-Romanesque style church structure constructed in 1885; and the Queen Anne style parish house constructed in 1892. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark is an historic former church and current synagogue building located at 323 East 6th Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States.
The congregation was founded in 1868 after splitting from St. James's Lutheran Church. Most New York Lutherans were German in the nineteenth century, and "Holy Trinity was one of a very few English-speaking Lutheran congregations. The first church was at 47 West 21st Street, in the edifice originally built for St. Paul's Reformed Dutch Church." [3]
Charles V [d] [e] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.