Brooklyn: Bedford Avenue - Lafayette Avenue

1002-1024 Bedford Ave., west side, between Lafayette and De Kalb Aves.(No. 1024, is at the left foreground). A view of the First German Lutheran Church, known as St. Peter's German Evang. Lutheran Church, which was organized on November 17, 1867.

June 1923.

The fiftieth anniversary of the dedicating of the edifice of St. Peter's Lutheran Church was celebrated yesterday morning by the congregation. The sermon was by the Rev. Dr. Ellis B. Burgess, president of the United Lutheran Synod of New York. The Rev. Dr. J. G. F. Blaesi, pastor, officiated at the altar, wearing a silk robe and clerical vest given him in honor of his forty years as a clergman, which he will complete in July, according to the New York Times of May 23, 1938.