Hauge's Synod
(Norw.) (1876-1917)
Bethesda
Ebenezer
Elim
Hauge's
Immanuel
Irving Park
Redeemer
St. Paul's English
Trinity

The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
  The English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer was organized on January 9, 1916 as a member of Hauge's Synod, after operating from 1913 as the Irving Park Lutheran Mission of the Hauge Synod. Work was originally conducted in a portable chapel, with dedication of its own permanent facility at 4901 W. Bernice Ave. held on January 27, 1918. The original building later housed the fellowship hall and church offices when a new English Gothic sanctuary was constructed in the front of the lot in 1930. The congregation dissolved on June 25, 1995.

Pastors
Aksel H. Trygstad 1913-1914
Elias Rasmussen 1914-1922
Karl Figenbaum 1922-1937
Myron J. Medin 1937-1944
A.C. Mortredt (interim) 1944-1945
Robert Walledom 1945-1964
Leroy Iseminger 1964-1968

Congregational records
The ELCA Archives has microfilm of Redeemer's membership records from 1916-1945 and church minutes from 1916-1957 on film #406. Redeemer's original record books should be located at the ELCA Region 5 Archives in Dubuque, Iowa.

Sources
Norlie, O.M., ed. Norsk Lutherske Menigheter i Amerika, 1843-1916. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1918.

 

 

 

 

 
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