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The result was the Austin Agreement of 1916, and on June 9, 1917, the United Church, the Hauge Synod, and the Norwegian Synod merged to become the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. [3] In 1946, that body changed its name to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The Lutheran Church among Norwegian-Americans: a history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House: 1960) Satre, Lowell J The Hauge's Synod: education for awakening (editors: Fevold, Eugene L. - Frost, Gerhard E. - Quanbeck, Warren A. - Sonnack, Paul G.: Decorah, Iowa: 1977)
Most Norwegian immigrants to the United States, particularly in the migration wave between the 1860s and early 20th century, were members of the Church of Norway, an evangelical Lutheran church established by the Constitution of Norway. As they settled in their new homeland and forged their own communities, however, Norwegian-American Lutherans ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada; Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States) (The Evangelical Lutheran Church) Evangelical Lutheran Concordia English Synod (of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) Evangelical Lutheran Federation (disbanded 1998) [7] Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America (1820–1918)
Vang Evangelical Lutheran Church (Manfred, North Dakota) South Wild Rice Church, (Red River Valley, North Dakota) Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church, (Ward County, North Dakota) Calvary Lutheran Church and Parsonage (Silverton, Oregon) Aurland United Norwegian Lutheran Church, (Frederick, South Dakota) Zoar Norwegian Lutheran Church ...
Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic building located in Sheldahl, Iowa, United States. The community was platted by Osmund Sheldahl and J.S. Polk. Sheldahl was a lay Lutheran minister who settled in Illinois in 1845. He and three others came to this area in 1854 in search of cheap available land. [2]
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The Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church incorporated the congregation on March 25, 1869. [3] The first trustees were Hans Johnson Gaare, John Svenson, and Peter Martinson; with Anders Larson and Ole Clauson acting as incorporators as well. The congregation's first church building was a locally quarried stone structure built in 1867.