The theme of this research is the history of the Evangelical Church Assembly of God (IEAD) as the first Pentecostal church in the Amazon, which in its origins had a strong female role in the person of the Swedish Frida Vingren from 1917 to 1940. The main objective of the research is to narrate Frida's life trajectory, analyzing her performance as a leader, taking into account the problem of gender conflicts existing between her and the male leadership of her time. This fact brought about the silencing of her protagonism as a consequence, after being considered “crazy”. What caused the forgetfulness in relation to its importance to the church, being remembered by history for a long time only as the wife of one of the founders, the Swede Gunnar Vingren. In this sense, studies on Frida Vingren's life became relevant to understand how the participation of female leadership in the history of the Assemblies of God took place in the first moments of its existence. Because, in a very adverse time, Frida broke with established paradigms regarding the role of men and women in the Church. Therewith, recent studies take back the history of AD with another look at the female performance in the period of its foundation and observe the leadership developed by Frida in the literary, pastoral and music, whose legacy is to inspire other women to overcome the patriarchy, prejudice and misogyny existing in gender relations in the Churches. Thus, for this work, the methodology used is the analysis of sources such as Diário do Pioneiro; journals Boa Semente, O Som Alegre and Mensageiro da Paz; and authors, Gedeon de Alencar, Isael de Araújo and Valéria Vilhena that are essential for this research to understand gender issues, Frida's performance and her silencing and forgetfulness.
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