Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Flourtown, Pennsylvania)
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Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is an
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it ...
church in Flourtown,
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Brief History

In 1819, the congregation worshiped in a building they constructed with the congregation that became St. Paul's United Church of Christ church as Union Church of Whitemarsh. In 1894 the congregations mutually separated with the Lutherans becoming Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Reformed congregation becoming St. Paul's Reformed Church of Whitemarsh at Fort Washington, with a new building about a mile away. The church currently operates a
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External links

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Lutheran churches in Pennsylvania Christian organizations established in 1894 {{US-Lutheran-church-stub