New Jerusalem Lutheran Church

New Jerusalem Lutheran Church is a Virginia historical marker in Loudoun County, dedicated 2015.

Loudoun County · dedicated 2015 · 12942 Lutheran Church Road

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New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, formally established in 1765, was among Virginia's earliest Lutheran congregations east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its founders were Palatine Germans who immigrated to this area from Pennsylvania and Maryland in the mid-18th century. They constructed their first sanctuary, a log building, on land given by George William Fairfax. Services were conducted in German until about 1830. The present Late Greek Revival-style sanctuary was dedicated in 1869, and its bell tower was added in 1903. The cemetery’s earliest legible stone dates to 1770. A number of Revolutionary War soldiers are buried here.

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