The Bavarian immigrants who came in the summer of 1838, before the arrival of the Saxon Lutheran immigrants, worshiped in members' homes until a log church was built north of Cinque Hommes Creek in 1846, in a location known as Frankenberg or Hill of the Franks in German.

C. F. Gruber of the Saxon Paitzdorf colony (present-day Uniontown) first served the congregation beginning in 1840.

From 1852 to 1885, the congregation worshiped in a church on the Frankenberg hill overlooking Cinque Hommes bottom.

The congregation's membership extended from Perryville all the way to the Mississippi River opposite Chester, Illinois.

The people resolved to preserve their buildings as a reminder of the heritage of the LCMS and asked the Concordia Historical Institute to take over the property.