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 ...