The German Church (german: Deutsche Kirche) in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

is in Bedford Street South/ Canning Street and is part of th
German speaking churches of North England
The North of England German Protestant churches are members of the "Synod of German-speaking Lutheran, Reformed and United Congregations in Great Britain" and come under the care of the overseas department of th
EKD
(Evangelical Church in Germany)
Services in German
are held twice a month on the first (4:00 pm) and third Sundays (11:00 am). Regular Groups include a Faith discussion group, Wirral Circle and a Toddler Play Group.

Origins

An English

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from the

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(

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) came across a

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meeting of some

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in a disused ship on the

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, a man was ordained and ministered to this congregation. Initially it was a

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congregation in the

, later to become affiliated with the

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church. This is the origin of the German Evangelical Lutheran (E.K.D.) congregation in Liverpool. After using many different buildings for worship and education, it built its own structure in 1960.

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External links

* https://deutschekirche.org.uk/liverpool-en * https://facebook.com/deutschekircheliverpool * https://archive.org/details/geschichtederde01rosegoog * https://web.archive.org/web/20091211012303/http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/tcm21-32263.pdf * http://deutschekirche.org.uk/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20060517064455/http://lutheran.org.uk/history-more.htm Churches in Liverpool {{England-church-stub

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