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St. John's Lutheran Church
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| Location: | Knoxville, Tennessee |
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| Built: | 1913 |
| Architect: | Graf, Richard F. |
| Architectural style: | Late Gothic Revival |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 85000700[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | April 4, 1985 |
St. John's Lutheran Church is a historic church located at 544 Broadway NW (Emory Place) in Knoxville, Tennessee. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both individually and as a contributing property in the Emory Place Historic District.
The sanctuary was constructed in 1913. R. F. Graf was the architect, and it was designed in the Gothic Revival style. Gothic elements include arches at windows and doorways, exterior buttresses, and tracery. The church's interior utilizes quarter sawn oak. Hammerbeam trusses vault the sanctuary, rising to almost forty feet. The sanctuary includes nine stained glass windows.
The congregation was initially organized in 1888, worshipping together as an English speaking congregation on Sunday evenings at the First German Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Knoxville. The following year, the congregation moved to their own building at the corner of Broadway and Fifth Avenue. By 1911, the congregation began constructing the present facility, and moved to Emory Place two years later.
The congregation is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
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