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Zion German
Evangelical Lutheran
Church
Brooklyn Heights, NY
This database
contains an index of
names in the records
of the Zion German
Evangelical Lutheran
Church. Zion is
located at 125 Henry
Street, Brooklyn
Heights, NY. The
church was founded
in 1856 and is still
in existence.
The records in this
database are as
follows:
Baptism Records
(13,527) from 1856 to 1969
Funeral Records from: 1856 to
1868 - Book 1 -
(677 records)
1880 to 1889 - Book 3 - (921 records)
1897 to 1905 - Book 5 - (417 records)
1915 to 1969 - Book 7 - (1839 records)
Books 2, 4, and 6 are missing from the church.
Marriage records
(6,303) from 1856 to
1969
To aid your search
you can replace part
of the surname with
an * such as Sch*
and the search will
return all names
starting with Sch.
Similarly, you can
use a _ to replace a
single letter if you
don't know the exact
spelling.
All
record requests for
Zion Church must be
in writing to the
following address:
German Genealogy Group
ATTN: Record Search
Post Office Box 1004
Kings Park, NY 11754
When writing, please
give as much
information as
possible along with
the book number,
page and entry
number, which can be
found within this
database. Keep in
mind that there may
be more information
contained within the
church book
record that you’ll
receive on the
certificate. It is
suggested that you ask
for the
entire
record when making
your request for a
certificate.
We will provide an image of the original church register which is
hand-written and in German. Please include a check for $5.00 for each
record requested. If you include an e-mail address we will send a
digital image the record, which will enable you to enlarge it for
viewing.
As part of our
Heritage
Preservation
Program, members of
the German Genealogy
Group have spent
many hours
computerizing an
index to the various
church records on
this web site. We
are grateful to the
pastors of the
churches for
allowing us to make
these indexes
available to
genealogists all
over the world.
This project was
coordinated by Ms.
Elizabeth Acker
Lovaglio. If you
would like to
contribute time to
other current
Heritage
Preservation
projects, please
contact
Ms. Lovaglio.
The German Genealogy
Group wishes to
thank the following
for their
help and
participation in the
Zion Church project:
Volunteers
Gloria Anderson
*
Lucille Blum
*
Don Eckerle
*
Elizabeth Lovaglio
*
Kathryne Natale
Tom Risinger
*
Dottie Schilling
*
Bob Weingarten
A very special thank you to Lucille
Blum, without whose experience and dedication to the cause this
project would not have been completed.
The
Deutsche
Evangelisch-Lutherische
Zions-Gemeinde
had its start on the
first Sunday in
Advent (December
2nd) of 1855. On
that morning, twelve
German immigrants
met for worship with
Pastor Friedrich W.
T. Steimle in a
small rented hall at
the corner of Nassau
and Fulton Streets.
Although
there were other
Protestant churches
in the area, some
even using the
German language,
these founders
wanted to preserve
their identity and
their heritage as
Lutheran Christians,
firmly committed to
the Holy Scriptures
and the 16th-century
Lutheran
Confessions. As a
way of keeping pure
doctrine, they
obligated the
congregation to
always use German
for worship and
church business.
Many German
immigrants soon
joined the new
congregation, which
moved to a larger
hall at 189
Washington Street in
May 1856, when the
name
Zion was
adopted. By November
of that year, Zion
had grown enough to
be incorporated and
the present
building was
purchased for
$14,500. Although it was
built in 1839 as a
Dutch Reformed
church, the building
was being used as a
concert hall until
Zion dedicated it on
the first Sunday in
Advent (November 30)
of 1856. Zion thus
occupies the oldest
church building
still in use in
Brooklyn Heights.
