St. Johns Evangelical Church - SD
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N 45° 09.938 W 097° 03.962
14T E 651986 N 5003169
St. Johns Church, Mazeppa Township SD
Waymark Code: WMFN5
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2006
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The third early congregation in the region was Mazeppa Township, SD, also St. Johns. I found two dates for its organization, 1888 and 1890. It built a church in 1897 and a few years later it built a schoolhouse. Other congregations had such schools, such as St. Paul's, Argo Township. These schools supplemented the public schools during the summer months with lessons in catechism, Bible History and German. There were no Sunday Schools as such. Confirmations classes in the
winter time were virtually impossible. Then too German was taught, because the child in the public school were taught only in English, and was in danger of loosing his German. It was considered sacrilegious to teach religion in English to these German people.
Mazzeppa too had its moments of glory and hosted a convention. When it disappeared from the 1969 Statistical Report, Bethlehem on the north side of Watertown took its place. In reality, St. John's of Mazeppa became Bethlehem of Watertown.
Church Name: St. Johns Evangelical Church
Church In Use (even only just occassionally): yes
Date Church Built: 1888
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