St. John's Lutheran Church, Knoxville, Tennessee

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location= Knoxville, Tennessee
lat_degrees = 35
lat_minutes = 58
lat_seconds = 26
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 83
long_minutes = 55
long_seconds = 26
long_direction = W
locmapin = Tennessee
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built =1913
architect= Graf,Richard F.
architecture= Late Gothic Revival
added = April 04, 1985
governing_body = Private
refnum=85000700cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

St. John's Lutheran Church is a historic church located at 344 Broadway NW (Emory Place) in Knoxville, Tennessee. The church is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The sanctuary was constructed in 1913. R.F. Graf was the architect, and it was designed in the Gothic Revival style. Gothic elements include arches at windows and doorways, exterior buttresses, and tracery. The church's interior utilizes quarter sawn oak. Hammerbeam trusses vault the sanctuary, rising to almost forty feet. The sanctuary includes nine stained glass windows.

The congregation was initially organized in 1888, worshipping together as an English speaking congregation on Sunday evenings at the First German Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Knoxville. The following year, the congregation moved to their own building at the corner of Broadway and Fifth Avenue. By 1911, the congregation began constructing the present facility, and moved to Emory Place two years later.

The congregation is affliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

References

* "The Future of Knoxville's Past: Historic and Architectural Resources in Knoxville, Tennessee." (Knoxville Historic Zoning Commission, October, 2006), page 24.

External links

* [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/tn/knox/state2.html National Register of Historic Places]
* [http://www.st-johns-lutheran.org/ St. John's Lutheran Church website]
* [http://www.elca.org/ The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)]