St. Peder's Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke

St. Peder's Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke (also known as St. Peder's Evangelical Lutheran Church) is a historic church at 1796 7th Avenue in Nysted, Nebraska. It was built in 1919 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The church is located in Nysted, a town whose population peaked at 65 in 1890, and was named by Danish immigrants for Nysted ("New Place"), Denmark. The church used Danish as its primary language until 1938. It was deemed significant for "its role in maintaining and promulgating the heritage of the region's Danish immigrants and their children....Through its role in the Danish Folk School, it promoted education and the quest for enlightenment amongst Danish-Americans from the area, but also for those of Danish descent for several states around Nebraska. It sought to encourage them to foster education throughout a lifetime, be both good Americans and good Danes." It was also deemed significant for its architecture: The building, with its stepped gables, is reminiscent of the Danish village churches the immigrants would have attended before they emigrated, and is what they would have looked back upon for inspiration for a building to suit their spiritual needs. The building has excellent historic integrity and remains an important place to the descendants of the builders to this day." It is a rectangular, one-story brick church wit

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