Faith Lutheran Church

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The congregation of Faith Lutheran Church began meeting in the basement of the former Pike school building on Sunset Road and then in Peabody House on the campus of Phillips Academy around 1963. Faith Lutheran Church became a formal, distinct body of the Lutheran Church of America on Sunday December 1, 1963. [1] The congregation purchased a parcel of land on the corner of Main Street and Wildwood Road in 1964.


...architect Royal Barry Wills drawing of Faith Lutheran Church, 1965 from the Historic New England Digital Collections.... click to enlarge

At a sunrise Easter Service in 1965, Christ Church Rector, J. Edison Pike presented the Faith Lutheran congregation with a foundation stone from his church. [2] [3]

Faith Lutheran dedicated a building addition on Sunday, September 30, 2012. [4] The church opened in January, 1967 and was dedicated in September of that year. [5] The church was designed by the architecture firm Royal Barry Wills and the blueprints for the structure are digitized and held in the Historic New England Digital Collections. [6]

REFERENCES

  1. Faith Lutheran Church will officially organize Sunday, The Andover Townsman, November 27, 1963, p.1.
  2. Foundation Stone, The Eagle Tribune, April 22, 1965, p.5
  3. Symbolic stone set in foundation, The Andover Townsman, February 9, 1967.
  4. Faith Lutheran in Andover dedicates church addition, The Eagle Tribune, September 29, 2012.
  5. Faith Church dedication Sunday, The Andover Townsman, September 7, 1967.
  6. Wills, Royal Barry. Plans and drawings for Faith Lutheran Church, Andover, Mass, Historic New England

See Also

  • "Allelujah... addition done!", Andover Townsman, October 4, 2012.
  • "Faith at 50: Lutheran church thrives in service to others," Andover Townsman, September 26, 2013, p. 1.




--Stephanie (talk) 10:47, 30 January 2024 (EST)
--Kim 15:23, October 15, 2012 (EDT)


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