St. Paul Lutheran Church

       2624 Burgundy Street

St. Paul Lutheran Church
New Orleans, Louisiana

"... first Protestant German church, St. Paul Lutheran, founded in 1840. The congregations included artisans, shopkeepers, farmers, dairymen, and the settlers of Milneburg." (Link 1.)

Church Plaque

"First German Lutheran Congregation of New Orleans (1840) Originally: German Orthodox Evangelical Congregation of New Orleans and Lafayette Formerly: First German Lutheran Congregation of New Orleans Presently: St. Paul Lutheran Church." (Link 2.) Pastor Sans came to New Orleans in 1840 and put an ad in the German newspaper that an evangelical church service would be held in the fire house on Chartre Street the first Sunday in August. Regular services were held after that.  In 1843 property was bought for a church to be built under the name of German Orthodox Evangelical Congregation of New Orleans and Lafayette.  The church that was built of flat lumber had a 75 foot steeple. (LInk 3.) "The first organ installed in this church, according to the OUSCDB database, was a3 manual, 4 division Hinners organ dating to the early 1900's.  The present organ was installed in 1970." (Link 2.)

National Register Plaque

Photos: Taken in April 2017 by Suzanne's daughter, Amy, while visiting 

                 New Orleans.
Link 1: http://www.saveourcemeteries.org/st-roch-cemeteries-no-1-and-2/
Link 2: http://www.neworleanschurches.com/stpaulluth/stpaulluth.htm
Link 3:
 http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neworleans/st_paul_records/st_paul_publications/1890_translation.pdf

                                                                         Prayer

God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)