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WELS

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

 

formed in 1847 by
five pastors representing 18 preaching stations

 

Salem Lutheran Church

 

 

 

church building dating from 1863

 

Travel Pass
for the voyage from Germany to Wisconsin

 

ship used by the immigrants in 1860's

 

route to Wisconsin

 

window in the church

 

old world scene

 

old altar

 

 

the original oil lanterns

 

pulpit

 

old chandelier

 

original wall covering texture

 

floor design

 

early church organ

 

first mission supported was at the
White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona

 

church kitchen


West Granville Cemetery

 

 

tomb of the original land donor

 

early grave

 

angel

 

lamb

 

civil war veteran

 

 

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church


Amish Auctions Antique Auctions Appleton Ballooning Barns Beaver Dam Berlin Cedarburg Chilton Circus World Covered Bridges Cranberries WI Delavan Denmark Dickeyville Grotto Dodgeville Door County Fond du Lac Freistadt Germantown Green Bay Howard's Grove House on the Rock Hustisford Madison Manitowoc Menasha Mequon New Holstein Milwaukee Mineral Point Neshkoro Northern WI Omro Oneida Nation Oostburg Oshkosh Packers Football Plymouth Port Washington Racine Ripon Rural Wisconsin Saint Nazianz Seth Peterson Cottage Shawano Sheboygan Sheboygan Falls Small Town Southern WI State Fair Steam Locomotive Sun Prairie Taliesin Ten Chimneys Thiensville Two Rivers Wade House WELS Whooping Cranes

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