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200 South White Oak Street |
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The Jerusalem Church/ Christ Church UCC |
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View of the Church in 1888 |
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In 1804, the Lutheran and Reformed Congregations, who had worshipped in Annville since the 1730s, built the first church in Annville on land donated by Abraham Raiguel (1766-1841) and Adam Ulrich (1772-1847). “The Jerusalem Church of the Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Congregations of Annville and its Vicinity” was a magnificent three-story limestone structure with a grand balcony, encircling three walls, that housed the first church pipe organ in Annville.
In 1872, the Lutherans sold their share of the Jerusalem Church to the Reformed Congregation for $3000, and the church became known as Christ Reformed Church.
Raiguel and Ulrich also donated the land east of the church for use as a cemetery. Most of the Annville’s pioneered were buried here between 1804 and 1895. When the church was replaced by the present one, all the grave markers were buried. The inscriptions had been recorded, however, and are available online at www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9263/jerusalem.html. |
Christ Reformed Church as portrayed in the 1888 View of Annville |
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A second, larger church
building for
Christ Reformed Church,
sometime
in the early 1900s
(LCPCH, 11) |
In 1903, when church expansion was deemed necessary, the present building replaced the original church. It is an L-shaped limestone building with three-story square bell tower. Shortly after the Reformed Church became the United Church of Christ in 1957, the church was renamed Christ Church UCC. |
