General Synod (1820-1918)

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(1910 map)
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Christ English Ev. Lutheran Church

Christ English Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3523 W. Wilson Ave., at Spaulding Ave., was organized on May 28, 1911 in the Albany Park district of Chicago, as a member of the General Synod.

Using a portable chapel on the corner of Eastwood and Spaulding, the first service was held on January 22, 1911.

In October 1912 the congregation selected a site at W. Wilson and Spaulding Avenues and began construction of a permanent building in Oct. 1913. The building was dedicated April 12, 1914. A parish house was completed in 1922 and a new sanctuary (pictured above) was built in 1923-24 and dedicated on April 27, 1924. The original building (pictured at far right above) was used as chapel and gymnasium.

Sons of the congregation (with ordination date)
Kenneth Hurst, 1926
Irwin R. Kraemer, 1928
Frank Hurst, 1929
Herman Berngen
Albert E. Iverson
Warner E. Holmgren

Original records
Original record books should be located at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3253 W. Wilson Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4430. The ELCA Archives has some congregation histories and other information relating to Christ Ev. Lutheran Church.

Sources
Christ English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1911-1936, 1936.