Redeemer Lutheran Church

320 West Central Avenue

Arkansas City’s Redeemer Lutheran Church was organized in 1930, but the first services of the Lutheran congregation began five years earlier in 1925, when several different men from St. John’s College in Winfield started coming to Ark City to conduct services.

Before Redeemer Lutheran’s first dedicated church was built in 1941, the Lutheran congregation met in various locations in Ark City, including the Oldroyd Funeral Chapel and clubrooms in City Hall.

The first resident pastor, the Reverend Paul Mehl, was installed in August 1930. Soon after his arrival, the church purchased a piece of property near the site of the current church building. On April 27, 1941, Redeemer Lutheran’s new church was dedicated at 320 W. Central.

Architects Shaver & Sons, of Salina, designed the one-story church in the Gothic Revival style as developed for English chapels.

The church is built of random-coursed stone blocks in varying sizes.