St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Gone Kitchener

• Name	St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Gone Kitchener
  Nickname	2
  Born	congregation began About 1875	St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario
  Gender	Unknown
  Died	closed About 1895
  Person ID	I1042	Properties
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2011

  
  

• Notes

  St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Begun: c.1875 Closed: c.1895 First mention of St. John's Lutheran Church was made in the Kirchenblatt in 1875. It was the third Lutheran church established in Berlin and the congregation "worshipped in the former Swedenborgian Church on the west corner of Church and Benton Streets" (Weicker 1976:20). The church had been sold by the Swedenborgians in 1870 when they moved to their new church on the northeast corner of King and Water Streets. (Hopkins' 1879 map of the town of Berlin shows a Lutheran Church located on the southwest corner of Church and Benton Streets.) It was reported in the 1875 Minutes of the Canada Synod that St. John's was served bi-weekly in a parish with St. James in New Dundee, the Lutheran Church in Strasburg and St. Matthew's in Plattsville. St. James Lutheran Church in Mannheim was added to this Parish as of the 1877 Minutes. St. John's was formed by members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church who wished to belong to the Canada Synod. St. Peter's was considered to be an independent at the time. The last mention of the church was in the Kirchenblatt in 1895. Ryan Taylor (1986:71) reports that the congregation seems to have flourished in 1877. Records: Baptism dates: unknown Location of records: unknown Marriage dates: unknown Location of records: unknown Burial dates: unknown Location of records: unknown References: R. Taylor 1986; Weicker 1976:20-21; Weicker 1985; Weicker 1990:12.1a 1aAmbrose, Rosemary. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide to Churches Established Before 1900. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1993. [used the kind permission of Rosemary Ambrose 2011]

  
  

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  Born - congregation began About 1875 - St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario  = Link to Google Earth