First Evangelical Lutheran Church

First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Tennessee historical marker in Knoxville, Knox County.

1207 N. Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee

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The First German Evangelical Lutheran Church, U.S.A. was organized on October 12, 1869, with the Rev. John Heckel serving as its first pastor. Services were held in German into the 1890s. The Church was renamed German-English Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1903, and took its current name in 1919. The third, and current, church building was dedicated on May 15, 1955. The stained-glass windows were donated by members of the congregation between 1958 and 1965, and pipe organ deigned by Rudolf von Beckerath was installed in 1974. The First Evangelical Lutheran Church produced four daughter congregations in the area.

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1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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