Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia
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Documents from the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia
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About the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia
The Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia is the Northeast Regional Archives (Region 7) for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It is a part of a network of nine regional archives programs and a national level (church-wide) archives in the ELCA. Our service area is limited to Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Upstate New York (excluding the Metropolitan New York City area) and New England. We carry on the work of our predecessors in the first Lutheran Church organization in America, the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States, founded on August 15, 1748 by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. The Archives was recognized as a part of the church organization in 1792.
The Archives has been housed on the campus of the Philadelphia Seminary since 1889 as is located in the undercroft of the new Brossman Learning Center. The Archives collections are now completely contained in a large vault area with compact shelving, now better organized. A reference library room provides books frequently used, as well as space for researchers to work in comfortable surroundings. The Archives office is across the hall. The Seminary has provided the new space for the present and future.
Collections include personal papers of Lutheran clergy, theologians, and church workers; archives of church organizations; and records of congregations.
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