Attention Photographers! The deadline for the Estonian Ev. Martin Luther Church Post Card Contest has been extended to Jan. 15, 2017 to allow for the Christmas holiday season. Everyone is invited to photograph the church in any of the four seasons. The best photo will be selected to be used as our “official post card.”…
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A good foundation is essential
There are always surprises, when restoring a hundred year old wood structure. At the Estonian Church restoration project all early efforts to secure the foundation suffered a major setback due to the winter frost followed by torrential rains. Thanks to the back breaking work of our volunteers and professional assistance, on the August 12 to…
THE PICTURE OF THE ESTONIAN CHURCH FEATURING A NATIVE AMERICAN AND THE AMERICAN FLAG EXPLAINED
There is much confusion about the image of the Estonian Church featuring a native American and the American Flag. Many viewers of our Facebook Page have wondered of just what does this signify and mean? Finally an explanation: Several centuries ago, the land, the First Estonian Church was built on was Menomenee’s and Ho Chunk…
The Oldest Estonian Wooden Church in America YouTube Video
Text by Lembit Peterson.
Documentary Land of Soul “Hingemaa” airs on ETV this February
In a forgotten countryside, six hours drive from Chicago, near Gleason village there is an alley called Estonian Church Road. In the end of this alley or more like a road between fields there stands a little wooden church and an abandoned graveyard allegedly with a dozen graves next to it. This building with a…
Gleason Area Hosts Estonian Rock Legend Tõnis Mägi
Nearly 150 visitors including Estonian-Americans from around the U.S and Canada, converged on the Gleason area on Saturday evening, for the much anticipated “Hingemaa” or “Land of Soul” concert by Estonian rock legend Tõnis Mägi,and his wife, singer/acrtess Kärt Johanson. The concert was a fund raising effort to restore a once abandoned 108-year-old Estonian church,…
Benefit Concert Land of Soul “Hingemaa” was a success
The best things in life are the people you love, the places you’ve seen, and the memories you have gathered on your journey…
Historic Estonian Church gets Renovated
The Estonian Evangelical Martin Luther Church is the first Estonian church built in the United States, and today it stands as the only one in the state. Built in 1907, the building has fallen into extreme disrepair. But thanks to a group of Estonians from Chicago, it won’t look that way for long. The team has volunteered to spend their Summer working to restore the church…
Hidden Places: Estonian church slowly returns to dust
Far from the land that incubated it, the little church stands quietly in the dale. Estonian Lutheran Church, a humble one-of-a-kind, was the first congregation of its type established in the United States, but it never had a full-time pastor and, today, lies forgotten in the woods at the Langlade-Lincoln County border near Gleason. Strike…