Sharon United Methodist Church - Manchester, MI
N 42° 11.500 W 084° 01.957
16T E 745023 N 4675320
Sharon United Methodist Church was built as Salem Church in 1876 in Manchester, Michigan.
Waymark Code: WM190JR
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2023
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From the state of Michigan historical marker at the church:
The Reverend Edward Weiss, a Washtenaw County circuit rider, organized an Evangelical class of fifteen members in 1874. They met in a school located two miles east of here. Two years later, trustees Herman Gieske, Lambert Gieske and Bernhardt Kuhl, on behalf of the Evangelical Association of North America, bought land from the Rowe family in the area known as Rowes Corners. Church members hauled brick and lumber to the site. Salem Church was dedicated in November 1876. The vernacular Gothic Revival church is similar to others built in the Midwest by nineteenth-century German congregations. Stained-glass windows were installed in the early twentieth century. The denomination merged with the United Brethren Church in 1946 and with the Methodist Church in 1968. That year this church was renamed Sharon United Methodist Church.
The church is in very good shape. It has its own churchyard cemetery with many of the tombstones being in German to reflect the background of those who founded the church 150 years ago.
Church Name: Sharon United Methodist Church
Church In Use (even only just occassionally): yes
Date Church Built: 11/10/1876
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