Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
State Library of Iowa

0104 First Lutheran Church

Title

0104 First Lutheran Church

Description

Glossy photo postcard of the present day Lutheran Church built in 1927

Source

Fairfield Public Library

Date

1927

Notes

This picture of the First Lutheran Church shows the present day building that was built in 1927 on land donated in 1856 by F. B. Huntzinger who had came to Fairfield from Pennsylvania and joined with three other couples in the area to form the first Lutheran church. The church was the second of its denomination founded in Iowa and in it the Iowa Synod of the Lutheran Church was organized in 1857.