Salem Lutheran Church Photograph Collections
Collection
Identifier: Photo 421
Scope and Content
The Salem Lutheran Church Photograph Collection contains 9 photographic prints. Six of the prints are snapshots taken from the cornerstone service for a church addition taken Nov. 24, 1955. One print is of the 60th Anniversary showing members taken in 1932, as well as a 75th Anniversary group photo from 1947. There is one photo of the exterior of the church taken sometime after the new addition was completed in 1956.
Dates
- 1932-ca.1956
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are not held by the NDSU Archives.
History
Salem Lutheran Church was organized on October 4, 1872 in the log cabin of Peder Nokken five miles south of Moorhead, Minnesota on the Red River as the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rev. N. T. Ylvisaker organized the church on a missionary journey to the Red River Valley. In 1874 they built a church in Moorhead which they closed in 1878 deciding to find a suitable place in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1879 they changed their name to Our Savior's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation. In 1891 they completed construction of the present structure south of Fargo alongside U.S. 81. In 1892 they changed their name to Salem Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church. The congregation remained active celebrating its 75th and 85th anniversaries. In August 1970 the congregation was dissolved with the church and cemetery becoming the property of the Salem Cemetery Association.
Extent
9 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Lutheran Church originally located in Moorhead, Minnesota before its members moved it to its site south of Fargo along U.S. Highway 81.
Provenance
Donated by Mrs. Roscoe S. Brown, 1961 (Acc. 1161)
Separation Record - Records
The photographs were separated from the Salem Lutheran Church Records, Mss 2.
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Salem Lutheran Church Photograph Collections
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu