Its significance includes that, according to its NRHP nomination:"...it calls attention to religion and social history among the Pella Dutch.

First Christian Church calls attention to this strife within the otherwise homogeneous Dutch-American community, as religion became the focus of local controversy during the 1850s and 1860s.

Elder Jacob Maasdam, a charismatic layman, led one of these latter groups.

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