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Frelsis (Liberty) Lutheran Church at Grund

Frelsis (Liberty) Lutheran Church at Grund is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Manitoba.

Manitoba · NW 12-6-14W, R.M. of Argyle · location approximate

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This is the oldest standing Icelandic Lutheran Church in Canada. It was built in 1889 by volunteers under the direction of carpenters Byring Hallgrimsson and Arni Sveinson. Grund Lutheran is representative of late nineteenth-century church architecture in rural Manitoba, a wood frame structure built on a simple rectangular plan. The prevailing taste for the Gothic Revival style is expressed here in pointed windows, and delicate window tracery on the tower. Many of the early congregation members had first settled at New Iceland (Gimli) in the late 1870s, before homesteading in the Municipality of Argyle in the 1880s. They were still living in log houses when they built this church which became the focal point of the community. In 1964, Frelsis Congregation joined Baldur Immanuel Lutheran Church.

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Cette église est la plus vieille église luthérienne islandaise encore présente au Canada. Elle a été construite en 1889 par des bénévoles, sous la direction des menuisiers Byring Hallgrimsson et Arni Sveinson. L’église de Grund est typique de l’architecture religieuse rurale manitobaine de la fin du 19e siècle, caractérisée par une structure en bois érigée selon un plan rectangulaire simple. L’attrait des gens de l’époque pour le style néo-gothique est traduit ici par les fenêtres en lancette et le délicat vitrail de la tour. Beaucoup des premiers membres de la congrégation s’étaient établis à Gimli, dite Nouvelle-Iselande, à la fin des années 1870, avant d’aller exploiter les terres de la municipalité d’Argyle dans les années 1880. Les colons habitaient encore des maisons de rondins au moment de la construction de l’église qui est devenue le centre de la vie de la collectivité. En 1964, la congrégation Frelsis s’est jointe à l’église luthérienne Baldur Immanuel.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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