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Augustus Lutheran Church is a historic church and Lutheran congregation at 717 West Main Street in Trappe, Pennsylvania. Consecrated in 1745, it is the oldest extant Lutheran church building in the United States. [4] It continues to be used by the founding congregation for services on Christmas Eve and during the summer.
The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church congregation. There is a distinction between old church buildings that have been in continuous use as ...
This group, the largest Lutheran church body in the United States at the time, provided the bulk of the eventual LCA's membership. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Suomi Synod), established in 1890. The American Evangelical Lutheran Church, traditionally a Danish-American Lutheran denomination, established in 1872.
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.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew is the oldest Lutheran congregation in North America. The congregation is a member of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). Since 2006, the congregation has been located at the Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The congregation has been known by different ...
However, most North American Lutherans belong to one of the three largest denominations, namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. [citation needed]
Hebron Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located in the countryside northeast of Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1740, with the south wing added about 1800. It is a one-story, T-shaped, frame building on a stone foundation. The original section measures 50 feet by 26 feet.
Christ Church: 1732–35 1961 Lancaster County, VA: Georgian: Episcopal: St. John's Episcopal Church: 1741 1961 Richmond, VA: Episcopal: Augustus Lutheran Church: 1743–45 1967 Trappe, Pennsylvania: Lutheran: Alamo Mission in San Antonio: 1744–57 1960 San Antonio, TX: Spanish Colonial: Roman Catholic: Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi (ruins ...