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Lutheran congregation (LCMS) of the south side · organized 1883 · 2313 South Hanna Street · active, November 2026
Founding: Zion was organized in 1883 by German-American members released from St. Paul's downtown to plant a congregation on the city's south side — "those German-Americans who came from our mother church, St. Paul's downtown, to establish and organize this congregation in 1883," in the words of the sermon preached at its 125th anniversary on 4 May 2008. Its school, Zion Lutheran Academy, counts the same founding year.
Present state: Active at the corner of Hanna and Creighton Streets, 2313 South Hanna Street; twenty-six pastors had served the congregation at its 125th anniversary, and its services of November 2026 run on its own channel and site. The building's dates are not carried in the sources this gazetteer could reach — a named gap, in a congregation whose own anniversary literature sits at the Allen County Public Library.
Sources:
- The Rev. John T. Pless, sermon at the 125th anniversary of Zion Lutheran Church, 4 May 2008 (Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne).
- Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana, church list: "Zion Lutheran Church, Wayne Township, 1883, active."
- Zion Lutheran Church, zionfw.org and service postings, November 2026 (2313 S. Hanna St.; present activity).
- National Center for Education Statistics, via the school's published profile (Zion Lutheran Academy, founded 1883).