Results tagged “Christ Lutheran Church” from York Town Square

Hundreds of people gathered outside Christ Lutheran Church in downtown York recently for a rededication ceremony of the building's steeple.

Another towering York steeple has been rehabbed and restored.

Last year, St. Paul Lutheran's steeple received a facelift.

Now comes mother church Christ Lutheran, just north on George Street, and its 177-foot steeple.

Renovation of the 1815 steeple cost about $267,000.

And it didn't come off without a hitch.

The project was delayed by nesting kestrels (see story and photograph below). But the Christ Lutheran congregation was patient with the small falcons. The steeple had been there from just after the War of 1812 ended. It could hold up a little longer.

A York Daily Record story on the project's completion as well as a piece about the kestrels follow:

Zion Lutheran, now empty, will become a senior-services agency.

St. Paul's Lutheran and the former Zion Lutheran churches have been in the news recently.

St. Paul's made headlines because a daughter of one of its parishioners was believed to have delivered a bouquet of flowers bearing a note detailing strategic Union defenses to rebel general John B. Gordon during the Civil War.

The Zion building, vacant for a decade, is being turned into a center for senior citizen services. http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_5074715

But the two congregations made the news in the first half of the 1800s, too... .