Augustus Lutheran Church

Augustus Lutheran Church

Infobox_nrhp | name =Augustus Lutheran Church
nrhp_type =nhl


caption = Augustus Lutheran Church
location= 717 Main Street, Trappe, Pennsylvania
locmapin = Pennsylvania
area =
built =1743
architect= Dr. Heinrich Melchior Muhlenburg
architecture= Other
designated= December 24, 1967cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=749&ResourceType=Building
title=Augustus Lutheran Church |accessdate=2007-11-08|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = December 24, 1967cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|accessdate=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=67000019

Augustus Lutheran Church, built during 1732-1745 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, is the oldest unchanged Lutheran church building in the United States in continuous use by the same congregation..

The church was designed by Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/67000019.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Augustus Lutheran Church] |513 KB|date=August 30, 1974 |author=Patricia Heintzelman and Charles Snell |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/67000019.pdf Accompanying 3 National Park Service photos, exterior, from 1967.] |970 KB]

It is located at 7th Ave East and Main Street, in Trappe.

References

External links

* [http://www.oldaugustus.org/ Official website]


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