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Augsburg is an unincorporated community in Pope County, Arkansas, United States. [1] In 1883, the first German-speaking Lutheran families began arriving in Pope County, 15 miles northwest of Russellville. Augsburg was named for the German city of Augsburg. In 1884, they built their first church, Zion Lutheran Church.
Church of Zion may refer to: Church of Zion, Jerusalem, Roman-era church or synagogue on Mount Zion, of which 4th-century remains are visible;
Shembe's Nazarite church was to become the largest Zionist congregation until eclipsed by the Zion Christian Church in the 1950s. Shembe's church was distinct from most other Zionist sects in that he insisted that he was a prophet sent directly from God to the Zulu nation. Most other Zionists were distinctly non-ethnic in outlook. [7]
Augsburg Fortress Publishers is the official publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Through various imprints, Augsburg Fortress Publishers publishes worship, music, curricular, and devotional resources and distinctive books for congregations, higher-education learning and scholars, children, and adult general readers.
The Church of Saint Mary of Zion claims to contain the original Ark of the Covenant. Accordingly, the Ark was moved to the Chapel of the Tablet adjacent to the old church because a divine 'heat' from the Tablets had cracked the stones of its previous inner sanctum. The Ethiopian Empress Menen funded the construction of the present chapel.
The Augsburg Lutheran Churches was formed in 2001 in response to the Called to Common Mission, an agreement between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in the United States, establishing full communion between them.
The Benedictine monastery was preceded by an original foundation established at an uncertain date, but at least as early as the 10th century (and in its turn quite possibly a refoundation of a still earlier one from the 5th or 6th centuries), by the "Kollegiatstift St. Afra", a community of the priests charged with the care of St Afra's Church (now the Basilica of Saints Ulrich and Afra ...
St. Peter am Perlach or Perlach-Church is a romanesque Catholic church in the center of Augsburg . The tower of the church, the Perlachturm , is together with the Augsburg Town Hall the landmark of Augsburg.