St. Joseph Catholic Church, Olpe Kansas Built in 1910

St. John’s Lutheran Church – N. of Ellis, KS  1921

This beautiful church is located on a blacktop road north of Ellis county.  Built in 1921, it offers Sunday school at 9:30 and worship at 10:30.

No plumbing, his and hers outhouses.

Little white churches of the prairie.  These 3 churches are located in Munden, KS

St. George Catholic Church

Former Methodist Episcopal Church.  No longer offering services.

Zion Evangelical Church

Elmdale Christian Church – Elmdale, KS

St. Anthony Catholic Church – 1900  Schoenchen, KS

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St. Joseph Catholic Church – 1905  Leibenthal, KS

St. Boniface Catholic Church – 1907  Vincent, KS

Pearl of the Prairies

Ebenezer Church – 1876   Clay County, KS

Falun Lutheran Church – 1887   Falun, KS

Holy Family Catholic Church – 1899  Odin, KS

Holy Cross Church – 1918  Pfeifer, KS

Construction started on the Church in 1915 and it was dedicated on May 3, 1918.  Known as the two-cent church, because families paid two cents for every bushel of wheat they produced to finance the construction.  They also donated their time for labor, quarrying and delivering the stone.

Coming into town from the north, the church’s gothic tower soars above the wheat fields.  The main tower is 165 feet tall, believed to be the tallest gothic spire in Kansas.

In 1993 the Catholic diocese dissolved the parish.  The parishioners started the Holy Cross Charities, Inc a non-profit organization to preserve the majestic church.  Donations can be mailed to:

Holy Cross Charities, Inc.  PO Box 5  Pfeifer, KS  67660

Back view of the church and school.

Holy Cross Cemetery

This area of Kansas was settled by  German speaking people from the Volga River area in southern Russia.  Iron crosses are part of their heritage.