Primrose Lutheran Church - Belleville, WI
N 42° 52.963 W 089° 39.948
16T E 282296 N 4751238
This church was moved here in 1941. It was constructed by taking the main portion of one building built in 1894 and adding a bell tower built in 1881. It is located at 8770 Ridge Dr in Belleville, WI.
Waymark Code: WM5HT8
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 01/10/2009
Views: 6
The marker reads:
"PRIMROSE LUTHERAN CHURCH
In the mid-nineteenth century, many newly arrived Norwegian immigrants in southern Wisconsin depended upon the spiritual and practical guidance of itinerant Lutheran ministers to help them successfully adapt to the new land. One of the most influential was evangelist Rev. Elling Eielsen, who organized a congregation of fifty people in Primrose in 1850. Five years later, the congregation built a log church in the community. Eielsen was a follower of Hans Nielsen Hauge, a lay preacher who started a spiritual revival in Norway emphasizing democratic attitudes and faithfulness to the scriptures. In 1854 a university-trained minister of the Norwegian state church, Pastor A.C. Preus, established a second church in Primrose called the Primrose Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church which emphasized traditional high-church principles and doctrine. The theological differences between the two congregations became the focus of the 1856 annual convention of Nowegian Lutheran churches held in Primrose and heightened existing divisions within Norwegian-American Lutheranism. The Primrose congregations, however, reconciled in 1915, and the present Primrose Lutheran Church joins the 1881 bell tower of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church with the 1894 Hauge Church, moved to this location in 1941.
Erected 1995"
Original Location: N 42° 52.000 W 089° 32.000
How it was moved: Wheels / Dolly / Truck
Type of move: City to City
Building Status: Private
Related Website: Not listed
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