Ballard First Lutheran Church (Seattle, Wash.)

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The Ballard section of northwest Seattle is a center for Scandinavian culture. On April 26, 1894, the first Lutheran congregation in Ballard was organized as Zion Lutheran, a member of the Norwegian Synod. Services were held in a store building until the first unit was built in 1896. Bethlehem Lutheran organized as a member of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church on October 5, 1905, and a church was erected. In 1917, when three Norwegian Lutheran bodies merged to form the NLCA

From the guide to the Ballard First Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington, Records, 1894-2012, (Pacific Lutheran University)

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Subjects:

  • Religion
  • Lutherans

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  • Clergy

Places:

  • Ballard (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)

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