Central Lutheran Church (Seattle, Wash.)

A missionary survey to bring English-speaking Lutheranism to the Pacific Northwest caused Holy Trinity Church to be organized on November 3, 1890 with 23 communicant members. The new congregation met in a tin shop which they remodeled. In 1901 this property was sold and the present site was purchased.

As a part of merger effort to unite the many Seattle Lutheran churches, the congregation was reorganized as Central Lutheran Church in 1927, taking families from other close-by churches and at the same time becoming part of the ULCA.

In 1932 the present church was erected where the old one stood. The organ, built by one of the members, is used for practice by the music students throughout the city. The church has at different times operated an Open House for Senior Citizens, was the founder of the Capitol Hill organization of churches called CHOICE, has operated a school for the mentally retarded, has sponsored refugees from Cambodia and Vietnam, and assisted in a community food purchasing group, the Peace Movement, and Lutheran Social Services.