Ebenezer Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Ebenezer Danish Lutheran Church was organized on December 1, 1895, as a member of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, as an outgrowth of Siloam Danish Lutheran Church. The assistant pastor of Siloam, Laurits Pedersen, was chosen as the new pastor of Ebenezer.
The congregation's original building was located at North Rockwell and Wabansia Ave. It was enlarged and remodeled in 1908-09. By the late 1930s and 1940s, the congregation planned to relocate to a new, larger facility. After being approached by Our Savior's United Lutheran Church, which needed to relocate, but could not afford the task on their own, the two congregations merged in 1947 to become Atonement Lutheran Church. A new building was constructed on the northwest corner of North and Rutherford Avenues. Ebenezer's former building was sold to the Albanian Orthodox Church St. Nicholas.
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Pastors |
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Laurits H. Pedersen |
1895-1920 |
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N.P. Clemmensen |
1920-1922 |
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Samuel Hansen |
1923-1926 |
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A.M. Nielsen |
1926-1930 |
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Fred Jacobsen (student) |
1930-1931 |
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C.M. Videbeck |
1931-1939 |
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R.E. Morton |
1939-1944 |
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H.C. Jersild |
1944-1947 |
Original records
Ebenezer's records are at Atonement Lutheran Church, 6740 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL 60635. The ELCA Archives has microfilm of Ebenezer's membership records from 1908-1947 on ALC #515, as well as congregational meeting minutes from 1875-1918 on ALC #802.
Sources
The Illinois District of The United Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates its Golden Jubilee, 1897-1947. Blair, Neb.: Lutheran Publishing House, 1947.