Schönwiese Mennonite Church (Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)

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Schönwiese Mennonite Church, Alexandrovsk (now Zaporizhia), Ukraine, was a branch of the Kronsweide Mennonite Church. Some of the ministers who served the church and lived in the village of Schönwiese were Peter Krahn, Jakob Janzen, and Peter Janzen. A meetinghouse was erected in Schönwiese in 1862. In distinction from the Chortitza Mennonite Church, which was of Flemish background, this church was Frisian.

Bibliography

Epp, D. H. Die Chortitzer Mennoniten. Odessa, 1889: 105.

Friesen, Peter M. Die Alt-Evangelische Mennonitische Brüderschaft in Russland (1789-1910) im Rahmen der mennonitischen Gesamtgeschichte. Halbstadt: Verlagsgesellschaft "Raduga", 1911: 702.


Author(s) Cornelius Krahn
Date Published 1959

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Krahn, Cornelius. "Schönwiese Mennonite Church (Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sch%C3%B6nwiese_Mennonite_Church_(Chortitza_Mennonite_Settlement,_Zaporizhia_Oblast,_Ukraine)&oldid=125000.

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Krahn, Cornelius. (1959). Schönwiese Mennonite Church (Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sch%C3%B6nwiese_Mennonite_Church_(Chortitza_Mennonite_Settlement,_Zaporizhia_Oblast,_Ukraine)&oldid=125000.



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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 477. All rights reserved.


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