[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ZION IN LUTHERAN CHURCH NAME

[Jerry Frank]

Zion is a synonym for the "city of Jerusalem" and often takes the connotation of the "new Jerusalem" where we will live in heaven.  I don't think there is anything that makes it uniquely Lutheran.


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: MIKE MCHENRY <maurmike1 at verizon.net>
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010 1:44 pm
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ZION IN LUTHERAN CHURCH NAME
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> Can someone tell me the significance of ZION in a Lutheran 
> church name? My
> grandparents attended a Lutheran church with it in its name. 
> They lived in
> Hoboken, NJ 1910 - 1920. Hoboken had a large German population 
> at the time
> with a number of German Lutheran churches to choose from. This 
> one was not
> the closest to their homes.
> 
>  
> 
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>  
> MIKE
> 
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