Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church

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Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church
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Nearest city Frederick, South Dakota
Coordinates 45°55′24″N98°23′38″W / 45.923291°N 98.393968°W / 45.923291; -98.393968 Coordinates: 45°55′24″N98°23′38″W / 45.923291°N 98.393968°W / 45.923291; -98.393968
Built 1884
NRHP reference # 84003223 [1]
Added to NRHP May 31, 1984

The Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church in Brown County, South Dakota was built in 1884. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]

Brown County, South Dakota County in the United States

Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 36,531, making it the fourth-most populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is Aberdeen. The county is named for Alfred Brown, of Hutchinson County, South Dakota, a Dakota Territory legislator in 1879.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

It served Finnish immigrants, "which in east central South Dakota came primarily from Oulu Province or far northern Finland. This was the area in which the Apostolic movement had its beginnings and greatest popularity in Finland." [2]

Oulu Province province of Finland (1775–2009)

The Province of Oulu was a province of Finland from 1775 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Lapland, Western Finland and Eastern Finland and also the Gulf of Bothnia and Russia.

Finland Republic in Northern Europe

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east. Finland is a Nordic country and is situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia. The capital and largest city is Helsinki. Other major cities are Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Oulu and Turku.

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Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church church building in Adams, United States of America

Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church is a historic pioneer church located five miles west of Adams, Oregon. It was built by volunteers on donated land in 1884 to serve the immigrant Finnish Laestadian community. Services were held in Finnish both for the immigrants and their children, whose mother tongue was also Finnish. After breakups within the Laestadian community, this church affiliated with the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America. Due to the remote location, preachers from surrounding areas as well as the American Midwest, and even as far away as Finland, were brought in to speak.

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