Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church

On April 1, 2021 the Heritage Calgary board approved the following site to be updated to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.

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Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church
43 4 Street NE (Crescent Heights)
Year Built: ca. 1902

Re-evaluated as a City Wide Historic Resource

The Immanuel Church is valued as a symbol of the early roots of the Immanuel Lutheran congregation and as the first purpose-built German church in Calgary (Institutional Value – City Wide Significance).

The church is significant for its association to Dr. John W. Lucas, who operated a successful evangelical, trans-denominational church for two decades out of the former German church (Person Value – Community Wide Significance).

The church is highly valued as an early and well-preserved example of vernacular Gothic-Revival architecture in the city (Style Value – City Wide Significance).

The Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church is significant as a marker of the substantial German population that settled in the Riverside neighbourhood beginning in the 1890s (Symbolic Value – City Wide Significance).

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