Christ Church Lutheran (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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Christ Church Lutheran is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) established in 1911. The building is a listed as a National Historic Landmark status by the National Park Service.

The building was designed firm Saarinen and Saarinen, a father and son partnership of noted modern architects Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950) and Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), the project was Eliel Saarinen's last completed building. It was dedicated in 1949, and was acknowledged as an architectural masterpiece from the day it opened; gaining further fame as an early example of modern church architecture.

An addition, consisting of the education building (connected by an arcade and interior hallways) was designed under the supervision of Eero Saarinen by his former employee Glen Paulsen, and completed in 1962. By coincidence it was also Eero's last completed project, he died the year before. The addition is organized around a courtyard and was carefully designed to complement and complete their earlier worship building.

In 1977, the building was awarded the American Institute of Architects Twenty-five Year Award, one of only two places of worship to have been so honored. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The entire building was named a National Historic Landmark status by the National Park Service by the Secretary of the Interior on January 16, 2009.