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Zion Lutheran Church

Oregon, US

Zion Lutheran Church

The Zion Lutheran Church is a church located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architect Pietro Belluschi employed a number of innovations in this 1950 church, an example of the application of modern architectural principles to a religious building. Us

ing local materials, influences, and artists and craftsmen, it represents the Northwest Regional style of modern architecture, which Belluschi (along with colleague John Yeon) originated and developed. The low-relief angels in hammered copper on the sanctuary doors were designed by sculptor Frederic Littman.

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