Suomi Synod
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N 47° 14.329 W 088° 26.770
16T E 390546 N 5232717
On the northeast side of Depot Street between Laurium and Hecla Streets, about 0.25 miles from US-41. Plenty of parking at the church.
Waymark Code: WMMQT
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/19/2006
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On March 25, 1890, nine Lutheran congregations, representing 1200 Finnish immigrants, assembled at Trinity Lutheran Church in Calumet and organized the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America - Suomi Synod. Four pastors and seventeen laymen from congregations in Calumet, Hancock, Jacobsville, Republic, Ishpeming, Negaunee and Ironwood, Michigan, as well as Savo, South Dakota, chose the Reverend Juho K. Nikander as the first president of the synod. By the 1920s the synod had become a national church body with 153 congregations and 36,000 members. In 1963 it merged with Lutheran churches of Swedish, German and Danish descent to form the Lutheran Church In America. The Calumet congregation, Faith Lutheran Church, is a continuation of the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian group that met in Trinity Lutheran in 1890.
Historical Date: 03/25/1890
Historical Name: Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Parking nearby?: yes
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Registered Site #: Local Site #1714
Description: Not listed
website: Not listed
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