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 Free Swedish Mission Church - Anaconda, MT Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 46° 07.489 W 112° 56.733
12T E 349691 N 5109755
This little wood frame church was originally built by Swedish Lutheran Dissenters in 1899.
Waymark Code: WMMP84
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 10/18/2014
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This was one of several Scandinavian facilities built in Anaconda around the turn of the twentieth century, indicating that, by that time, Scandinavians constituted a substantial portion of the population of Anaconda. The Swedish Lutherans occupied the church until the 1920s, at which time it was taken over by the Seventh Day Adventists. They, in turn, have since built a new building and this church has very recently become a commercial building, owned by Southwest Insulation. To what use they intend to put it, we do not know.
The Free Swedish Mission Church [501 Alder, 1899] is the only remaining first-generation, wood-frame
church in Anaconda. A Gothic Revival-style building, it offered services in Swedish, as well as Swedish
heritage activities.
From the National Register, Butte-Anaconda Historic District , Page 83
Three churches were soon organized: Swedish Lutheran Dissenters constructed the Gothic-Revival-styled Swedish Mission Church, which by the mid-1920s housed the Anaconda Seventh Day Adventist congregation, at 501 Alder in 1899; Swedish Lutherans constructed a brick church for the Zion Evangelical Lutheran congregation at 520 Cedar in 1904; and Swedish Baptists bought the frame Union Church, built in 1895, from a Scandinavian congregation in 1904. The frame Scandinavian Union Church at 501 Cedar served as a template for the design of Swedish Mission Church. These two churches, with their plain and simple Gothic-Revival detailing mirrored many of the rural churches in Sweden.
From the National Register, Multiple Property Documentation Form, Page 24
Date the Church was built, dedicated or cornerstone laid: 01/01/1899
Age of Church building determined by?: Other reliable source
If denomination of Church is not part of the name, please provide it here: Lutheran
Street address of Church:
501 Alder Street
Anaconda, MT USA
59711
Primary website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link]
Secondary Website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link]
If Church is open to the public, please indicate hours: Not listed
If Church holds a weekly worship service and "all are welcome", please give the day of the week: Not listed
Indicate the time that the primary worship service is held. List only one: Not Listed
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