Learn about our history and architecture!

Central Lutheran Church was established in 1919 to be a "servant church" serving downtown Minneapolis and the world. Within four years, with rapid growth in membership, the congregation was planning to build the largest traditional Lutheran worship space in the Western Hemisphere. It's an amazing story of vision, audacity, courage and generosity that continues to this very day!

read about the founding of Central here

read about the architecture of our historic sanctuary building here
     (including our stained glass windows and the completion of our bell tower nearly 80 years late!)




333 South Twelfth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-870-4416