Grace Baptist Church, Protestant church in Spokane, United States
Grace Baptist Church in Spokane, Washington, is a church building constructed in the early 1900s with Gothic architectural features. The structure displays arched openings, reinforced walls, and colored glass windows that are characteristic of religious buildings from that period.
The North Side Baptist Church was founded after the Great Spokane Fire of 1889 and first met in the Spokane County Courthouse. By 1903 it had hundreds of members and commissioned J. K. Dow to design a large church in what is now West Central, built in 1911 in Late Gothic Revival style. It joined the National Register in 1992 as Grace Baptist Church.
The building was listed on the National Register in 1992 as Grace Baptist Church, the name it kept from its Baptist years. Since the early 2000s Christ the Redeemer has rented space here, and after Grace Baptist's pastor retired the two congregations worshiped together before merging, leaving Christ the Redeemer as owner of the 1911 building.
The building is located on West Mallon Street and is easy to spot when walking through the neighborhood. Visitors can view the exterior and architectural details from the street and learn more about the site's history at any time.
Christ the Redeemer did not take over the building in 1993: it incorporated in 1994 after 17 adults and 20 children left the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist over a rejected request to plant an Episcopal mission. The congregation only moved in after renting space from Grace Baptist and merging with it.
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