Bethany Lutheran Church, (Seattle, Wash.)

A Swedish Lutheran Sunday School was started in the Green Lake neighborhood with a small group of seven children in the fall of 1907. On January 2, 1908, fourteen charter members met in the home of the Charles Colson's for the purpose of organizing a congregation. The Swedish name was later changed to Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church. Student Otto R. Karlstrom was in chage for one year, returning as the first ordained pastor in 1911.

The first church was completed in 1910, with and addition and renovation occuring in 1927. The old church had special historic Art Windows, as does the present sanctuary, completed in May of 1955.

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