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Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church is located north of Waterville, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. ==History== In the autumn of 1850 the first meeting was held to organize a Christian School and a place for worship by the first Norwegian settlers to the Paint Creek area of Allamakee County, Iowa. The school was organized in March the following year with Ole Larson as the first teacher. The first church services were held in July in the home of Thomas Anderson by Pastor C.L. Clausen from Rock Prairie, Wisconsin. The schoolhouse was completed by November 1851 and was used for church services as well. The congregation sent a Letter of Call to Norway for their own pastor. It was answered by the Rev. Ulrik Velhelm Koren who arrived in late 1853 and stayed until 1862. In July 1855 it was decided to build a church and it was completed in 1857. The congregation grew in size and divided into two separate churches, East Paint Creek Church and West Paint Creek Church. The cornerstone for the present church was laid on May 24, 1869 and the church was dedicated on August 24, 1870. It is constructed of stone in the Gothic Revival style. The Rev. Ove Jacob Hjort was pastor at the time. In 1880 a controversy over predestination erupted among Norwegian Lutherans and affected the congregations in the Paint Creek area. A small group broke away from the original churches and became known as the East and West Synod Lutheran Churches. To distinguish between the two original churches they were renamed Old East Paint Creek Church and Old West Paint Creek Church. On January 15, 1886 the Lady’s Aid Society, or ''Kvindeforening'', was organized in the parsonage. Mrs. Aagot Hartmann and Miss Tonning were initially in charge of the organization. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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