The Evangelic Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity

Earliest Congregation in Lancaster

Organized 1730

Fostered six other city congregations

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First church erected 1734

Present building begun in 1761

Dedicated in 1766 by

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg,

Lutheran patriarch

Tower and steeple added 1785-1794

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First Bible school organized 1828

Present parish house dedicated 1955

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An early pastor (1780 to 1815) was

Gotthilf ...

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Founded in 1730. a session for an Indian treaty was held in the original church building in 1762. The present edifice was dedicated in 1766. Here are interred the remains of Thomas Wharton (1778) and Gov. Thomas Mifflin (1800).

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