The German Church () in

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is in Bedford Street South/ Canning Street and is part of the 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 the Protestant 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

In the 1840s an English

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from the

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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 German-speaking congregation in the

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

References

External links

German-speaking church in Liverpool

German-speaking church in North England and East Midlands

"Walk in Faith"
at liverpool.gov.uk

GJR Cienciala (1975) at lutheran.org
''Geschichte der Deutschen evangelischen Kirche zu Liverpool''
Albert Rosenkranz (1921) at archive.org Churches in Liverpool German-speaking religious communities abroad {{England-church-stub

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