The Mount Zion Lutheran Church Annual Bazaar

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The Mount Zion Lutheran Church Annual Bazaar

2023-11-10T09:50:26+01:00

By Church News

The Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Detroit is encouraging the community to “shop local” at its annual bazaar on Saturday, November 11.The bazaar, open from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., features all handmade items that include home décor, holiday items, outdoor wares, and some clothing. Artisans also make jewellery, birdhouses, glass creations, paper items and toys, as well as knit, crochet, paint, carve and sew.This year a quilt, with little red trucks in some of the blocks, will be available for silent auction bids. The church’s GALS group cut, assembled, knotted and bound the holiday-themed queen-sized bed covering. Proceeds from this project will go to the proposed pavilion at the church.The Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Detroit was founded on June 4, 1882, by 51 men. Ten were members of the mother congregation, Immanuel, then located at 17^th and Pine; forty-one were mostly recent German immigrants from West Prussia, now a part of Poland.The Parish is the outgrowth of a branch school organized by Immanuel on Wesson, south of Michigan, then a part of Springwells Township, in 1877. In this wooden house turned School, midweek Advent and Lenten Services were conducted by Immanuel’s Pastor, the Rev. Konrad L. Moll, until Zion was officially organized. Wilhelm Burhop was the first Teacher, followed by Johann Von der Au in 1880.On October 15, 1882, at a Service in Immanuel Church, the Rev. Christian F. Schatz was installed as Zion’s first Pastor. Almost immediately thereafter, the school building was moved to Welch, now Military Avenue.The Dedication of the first Church, a 700 seat wooden edifice with a tall steeple, occurred on July 8, 1883.ALSO READ: Pope Opens Two New Laundromats for the Homeless