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Pastor Peter Carlson came to Seattle, WA, in late 10/1884 and decided to stay to build a congregation. He purchased for $3,600 a 60-foot by 120-foot lot on Third Avenue between Pine Street and Pike Street, which at that time already had two buildings on it. Carlson, who had worked as a carpenter, directed the construction of a church with the modest dimensions of 34 feet by 50 feet. This first Gethsemane Lutheran Church cost $1,500--paid for by the Augustana Synod's Church Extension Society--and opened for services on 02/22/1885.

This congregation formed in 02/1885, making it the oldest in the Seattle, WA, area.

PCAD id: 15933