Historic Sites of Manitoba: Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church / Faith Bible Church (600 Minto Street, Winnipeg)

This building on the west side of Minto Street in Winnipeg, designed by local architect Anton Edvin Breivik and built in 1939 by contractor Haakon Magnus Leonard Overgaard, was home for the first Norwegian Lutheran church in the city. In 2005, its congregation merged with that of the First English Lutheran Church. At the time of a 2021 site visit, the building hosted the Faith Bible Church.

Faith Bible Church

Faith Bible Church (March 2021)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88493, W97.18064
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Anton Edvin Breivik (c1894-1968)

Memorable Manitobans: Haakon Magnus Leonard Overgaard (c1885-1974)

Sources:

“What have they brought us?,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 April 1942, page 33.

About OSLC (7 December 2013), Internet Archive.

Location and Times, Faith Bible Church.

This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 April 2024

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