This Lutheran Church backs onto the 'National' Seventh-day Adventist Church. The main Service and Sunday School is held at 10am on Sundays. If you see it being used in the afternoons, that is because it is being used by the Canberra Christian Fellowhip of the Methodist Church.
This church has had a write-up on their architectural styling, with the following from the listing on the Heritage register:
"The church is also significant as a rare and well-preserved and early example of the 1960s Late Twentieth-Century Ecclesiastical style of architecture. Its setting and design have produced a building of integrity, representing the ideal of innovative modern architecture and planning; clean, functional, uncluttered and well sited... [with] ... The original scale, form and fabric of the place including the roof form and central spire reminiscent of a Gothic fleche or tower with its aluminium cross; unpainted horizontal boarded fascia; timber lined eaves; face concrete blockwork and blockwork screens; full height timber framed glazing with regular spaced timber mullions; internal fixed glazing over the southern folding partition; gutters with overflows to rectangular ponds; open planning; aureole; expressed steel frame structure; raked timber lined ceiling, and original detail and finishes."
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A little of the history of the Lutheran Church in Australia is given on the Church's website: "In 1838 a group of devout Lutherans led by Pastor August Kavel left Germany because of persecution and settled in the new colony of South Australia. A month before their arrival Lutheran missionaries arrived at the same place to begin work among the Indigenous Australian people." (
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Address: 22 Watson Street, Turner, ACT, 2612, Australia
Phone: (02) 6247 9493
Pastor: J Pekkarinen (2018)
Visited: 1431-3, Saturday, 1 September, 2018
[After I had been to a Terrain 5 geocaching Event on Lake Burley Griffin.]