12. Martin Luther Church - 2379 Lake Shore Blvd
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The Etobicoke and the Mimico area is another area that recieved much European immigration over the last eighty years. After World War II, many Germans, often arriving as refugees, moved into the west side of Metropolitan Toronto and in 1954 the Martin Luther Church was founded by German immigrants. For the first few years the congregation rented space at another church until purchasing their own building here in Mimico and held their first service in 1962. The congregation is particularly proud of their stained glass windows that replaced the original plain coloured windows in the early 2000s. Some windows have two symbols depicting biblical stories. On the west side, the ten windows depict the liturgical year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and so forth. The east side windows depict symbols of faith like God, Christ and the congregation itself. The result is a building that immediately evokes the image of a typical post-World War II Lutheran Church among newcomers from Germany.
