GLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH
Snelling Avenue at Highland Parkway
St. Paul, Minnesota
‘Glory To Cod”
The Church was dedicated in 1952. It is of Georgian
Colonial design, an example of a truly American and
Protestant form of architecture that symbolizes the simple
and sturdy faith of the founders of our nation. Erection
cost was $625,000. The stately spire is 31 feet high.
On Sunday, October 14, 1951, services were first held at the new Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, a building designed in the Georgian Colonial style and patterned after the chapel at Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Honorable Luther W. Youngdahl, Governor of Minnesota, had dedicated the building “with a consecrated spirit in our hearts…to use the facilities that God has given us to do the most that we can to send forth the Word of God here on earth.” Over the next fifty years, this building, with its tall white spire became a neighborhood landmark as Highland Park grew around it.