First Evangelical Church

Organized in 1857 as the Immanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America, this congregation was initially located at 11th and Pine Streets. In 1920, it erected a church at Earl and Euclid Streets in Dayton's Bluff. On March 27, 1921, the congregation took a new name, First Evangelical Church. Services were held in German until 1916. In 1946 the Evangelical denomination merged with the United Brethren in Christ, and the congregation was again renamed, this time to the First Evangelical United Brethren Church. In 1968, the United Brethren merged with the Methodists, and this congregation became the Mounds Park United Methodist Church, which remains extant in 2015.