United Danish Lutheran Church (1896-1960)
Atonement
Ebenezer
Gethsemane
Golgotha
Siloam
Our Savior's United

Siloam Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
  Siloam Danish Lutheran Church, organized on March 16, 1890, was received into the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1892. A church structure was built in 1894 on three lots on Snell (later Ada) Street and Chicago Ave. Because of the migration of the Danish residents, the congregation relocated in 1910 to the corner of Cortland and Lowell, where a new building was constructed later that year. The old facility was sold to a Polish congregation.

Through the home mission efforts of lay members of Siloam, Ebenezer Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1895 and Gethsemane Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1900.

In 1942 Siloam merged with Gethsemane, which had been served by Siloam's pastor since 1939, to form Our Savior's United Lutheran Church.

Pastors
P.C. Trandberg 1890
I.M. Hansen 1890-1907
Viggo Mengers 1907-1909
Axel Christensen 1910-1911
Johannes Simonsen 1911-1932
William Goldbeck 1932-1935
Paul G. Rasmussen 1936-1942

Original records
Siloam's records are at Atonement Lutheran Church, 6740 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL 60635. The ELCA Archives has a microfilm copy of Siloam's membership records from 1889-1942 on ALC #518, as well as Ladies' Aid meeting minutes from 1912-1944 and the 25th Anniversary history on ALC #802.

Source
The Illinois District of The United Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates its Golden Jubilee, 1897-1947. Blair, Neb.: Lutheran Publishing House, 1947.
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