Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran church in Old Town Lunenburg, Canada

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is a High Victorian Gothic building of 1890 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, home to Canada's oldest active Lutheran congregation. German settlers arrived in 1753 and first built on this site in 1772; the present church replaced that structure in 1841 and was itself rebuilt in 1890. The congregation keeps the key to the first church and a bell cast in 1723 in Brittany, bought in 1776 from the Fortress of Louisbourg.

German Lutherans who settled in Lunenburg in 1753 held services in the open air and later at St. John's Anglican Church. The first church on this site went up in 1772 for the arrival of pastor Friederich Schultz. That building was replaced in 1841, and the present High Victorian Gothic church dates from 1890.

The name Zion refers to the biblical hill of Jerusalem, chosen by a congregation of German Lutherans who arrived in Lunenburg in 1753. Services were first held in the open air and later in St. John's Anglican Church. The Saint Antoine-Marie bell, cast in 1723 in Brittany and engraved with St. Joseph, was bought by the congregation in 1776 and still survives.

The church stands on Cornwallis Street in Old Town Lunenburg, within walking distance of the waterfront and the town's other historic churches. The 1890 building is entered from Cornwallis Street; the 1946 Artemus Hall extension serves community events and Sunday school. Visitors should note that it remains an active Lutheran congregation, so sightseeing fits around worship.

The building preserves an original key and houses a historic bell acquired in 1776 from Fortress of Louisbourg. These artifacts connect this place to another significant site in Canada's maritime history.