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Iglesia Bautista Emanuel - Urdinarrain

Iglesia Bautista Emanuel (Emanuel Baptist Church) traces its history to Pastor Federico Roberto Leimann (born in 1881 in Latvia) who had been serving Ebenezer Baptist Church in General Ramírez (Entre Ríos), the first German-speaking Baptist church in Argentina. In 1923, Pastor Leimann and his family along with a group of church members moved to Urdinarrain. On 23 November 1924, the first baptisms (twelve individuals) were held in the Gualeguay River and the congregation of Emanuel Baptist Church was founded. Those twelve were: