The Zion Lutheran Church is a church located in

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, listed on the

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. Architect

Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture, he was responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings.Belluschi, Pietro. (2007). In ''Encyclopædia Britanni ...

employed a number of innovations in this 1950

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, an example of the application of modern architectural principles to a

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. Using local materials, influences, and artists and craftsmen, it represents the Northwest Regional style of modern architecture, which Belluschi (along with colleague

John Yeon John Yeon (October 29, 1910 – March 13, 1994) was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modern architecture, Modernism. ...

) originated and developed. The low-relief angels in hammered copper on the sanctuary doors were designed by sculptor

Frederic Littman Frederic Littman (1907–1979) was a Hungarian-American sculptor, whose large sculpted public artwork, frequent collaborations with architect Pietro Belluschi, and four decades of teaching "left a towering artistic legacy in Oregon". Life Littm ...

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1950 establishments in Oregon Churches completed in 1950 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon Buildings and structures in Goose Hollow, Portland, Oregon Lutheran churches in Oregon Modern Movement architecture in the United States Pietro Belluschi buildings Portland Historic Landmarks {{MultnomahCountyOR-NRHP-stub

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