page_title: Mennonites in Uruguay
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mennonites in Uruguay / History
caption_attribution_description: 2014-1065m Description: English: Left to right, Gerhard Lohrenz, Ernst Regehr (Uruguay), S. Floyd Pannabecker; General Conference sessions; used in Der Bote, October 17, 1956, p. 3 Date: 1956 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba MLA filing: Conferences - GC - 1956 Original Size: 7.5 x 7 cm
context_page_description: Mennonites in Uruguay have been present since 1948. The Mennonites of Uruguay are made up of ethnic Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites, who are descendants of Friesian, Flemish and Prussian people, as well as Spanish-speaking Uruguayans of all ethnic backgrounds, that converted responding to the missionary efforts of the immigrants.
  The immigrant belong to a group that is often referred to as Russian Mennonites, because they developed into an ethnic group in the Russian Empire. At the end of the century there were over 1,000 living on Uruguayan territory.
context_section_description: On October 27, 1948 the first group of about 750 arrived in Uruguay. They founded the El Ombú congregation in 1950. The second group of immigrants, comprising 429 persons, arrived 19 October 1951 and founded the Gartental Colony in 1952. A congregation was also organized in Montevideo the same year. The immigrants established three agricultural settlements, that have organized separate producer-consumer cooperatives. Each settlement has a school, retirement center, and a hospital-nursing home. A fourth colony, that is specialized in produce, was founded near Montevideo.
caption: 1956 General Conference Mennonite Church meeting
  (left to right: Gerhard Lohrenz, Ernst Regehr (Uruguay), S. Floyd Pannabecker photo published in Der Bote, October 17, 1956, p. 3)
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