Bethany Lutheran Church (Oilmont)
The Bethany Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building, which is free-standing on the prairie near the village of Oilmont ( Toole County ) in the US state of Montana . It was in the cultural heritage list of the federal government of the United States included.
history
Around 1910, Norwegian immigrants reached the remote Plains Montanas through the expansion of the Great Northern Railway and brought their Lutheran faith with them. Initially, the faithful in the region around Oilmont were cared for on the scattered farms by a mounted traveling preacher, but the Lutheran Bethany parish was founded in 1912 under Pastor H. E. Haugland. Services were initially held in private homes and schools. In 1916, land was donated to the community for the construction of a church and its own cemetery. When the USA entered World War I , the construction of the church was delayed; however, when the Spanish flu broke out in 1918, the first member of the congregation was buried in the new cemetery. The church building was finally consecrated on September 12, 1926. The small congregation joined forces with the Lutheran congregation of St. Luke's in Shelby in 1950 . The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . On December 14, 1993, the church was inscribed on the US National Register of Historic Places under number 93001375.
literature
Rich Aarstad: Montana Place Names. From Alzada to Zortman. Helena 2009.
Web links
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- ↑ Entry in the National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 37 " N , 111 ° 38 ′ 41" W.