India Evangelical Lutheran Church

The IELC was founded through the missionary efforts of the US-based Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS),[2] with whom it remains in altar and pulpit fellowship.[3] The inception of IELC is rooted in the mission work of LCMS that began in 1894.The work in India was known as the Missouri Evangelical Lutheran Mission (MELIM) and was carried out in areas of the Tamil and Malayalam languages.In 1959, it was registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 as the IELC and became an LCMS partner church.[1] On 30 November 2017, Cyclone Ockhi damaged the seminary campus so severely that IELC leaders doubted that they would ever be able to reopen.
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