Messiah Mission Church, also known as Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church, was a

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

church in the Inwood neighborhood of

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. The congregation was founded in 1916 and a two-storey brick school and chapel was built 1926 to designs by George W. Conable 46 West 24th Street, at 198-200 Sherman Avenue. The pastor who built the 1926 school church was Frederick P. Wilhem of 609 West 204th Street.Rev. Peter Debra
"Timeline of Messiah Mission Church,"
(Accessed 27 Dec 2010) Messiah merged in 1945 with St. Matthew's Lutheran Church with that congregation moving into Messiah's building. Messiah's church was sold when St. Matthew's (with Messiah) moved into a newly built church at 202 Sherman Avenue, Inwood, in 1957.Rev. Peter Debra
A Timeline of a History of St. Matthew
(Accessed 27 Dec 2010)Rev. Peter Debra

(Accessed 27 Dec 2010)

References

*Dunlap, David W. ''From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship.'' New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Lutheran churches in New York City Churches in Manhattan Former Lutheran churches in the United States Christian organizations established in 1916 Churches completed in 1927 Inwood, Manhattan 1916 establishments in New York City {{Manhattan-church-stub