Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Metropolitan

Interior of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran (Zion Lutheran) Church, Metropolitan, Felch Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, September 19, 1909: Pastor Carl Edblom, of Escanaba, organized the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Metropolitan on August 21, 1895, with 34 charter members. The congregation’s first church, built in 1900, soon became too small. In 1907 the church pictured above was constructed at a cost of $3,578. The altar, pulpit and church bell were purchased through funds raised by the Willing Workers, a group of young ladies of the congregation. In August, 1909, the first resident pastor, the Rev. K.M. Holmberg, who posed for the photographer in the sanctuary September 19, arrived. A large house was built for him on the hill north of the church and across the road. Note the ornate metal chandeliers, each containing six oil lamps with etched globes. The painting and design of the altarpiece and pulpit enhance the sanctuary. Hymns for Sunday’s service are listed on the wooden wall plaque above the organ at the right near the large parlor stove with a long stovepipe which radiated heat during the colder months of the year. [Leona Coppo], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: Interior of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran (Zion Lutheran) Church, Metropolitan, Felch Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, September 19, 1909: Pastor Carl Edblom, of Escanaba, organized the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Metropolitan on August 21, 1895, with 34 charter members. The congregation’s first church, built in 1900, soon became too small. In 1907 the church pictured above was constructed at a cost of $3,578. The altar, pulpit and church bell were purchased through funds raised by the Willing Workers, a group of young ladies of the congregation. In August, 1909, the first resident pastor, the Rev. K.M. Holmberg, who posed for the photographer in the sanctuary September 19, arrived. A large house was built for him on the hill north of the church and across the road. Note the ornate metal chandeliers, each containing six oil lamps with etched globes. The painting and design of the altarpiece and pulpit enhance the sanctuary. Hymns for Sunday’s service are listed on the wooden wall plaque above the organ at the right near the large parlor stove with a long stovepipe which radiated heat during the colder months of the year. [Leona Coppo]
Subject(s): Church buildings
Metropolitan (Mich.)
Date Created: 1909