The Church House Exhibition Centre shares the stories of our LCANZ, reflecting Lutheran heritage, present-day ministries of faith, worship and service and future directions. It is opening for the first time in May 2026, as part of South Australia's History Festival.
Located on the ground floor of LCA Church House at 139 Frome Street in Adelaide, the centre is open to the public each week for guided tours and walk-in visits and features enlightening interpretive storyboards and pictorial panels, interactive displays, audio-visual elements and rare and historic artefacts and artwork.
Images from the richly illustrated 1551 Luther Bible, like this one depicting the Apostle John writing his gospel, feature in Exhibition Centre displays. Photo: Grant Hancock c Australian Lutheran College
Lutheran schools have played an important role in the history of the LCA. The 1950s background photo to this display features students from Tabor, Victoria's Lake Linlithgow Lutheran school. Photo: Lutheran Archives P06727 13227
Designer Richard Browning surveys the Church House Exhibition Centre during construction
The cross is central to this stained-glass window featured in Luther College's chapel at Croydon Hills, Victoria
Migration was a source of growth for the Lutheran Church through the 20th Century. Here a 'migrant choir’ sings at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Adelaide , c. 1960s. Original photograph held by Bethlehem Lutheran Church Archives. Featured in The Lutheran, vol. 6 no. 13, 3 July 1972
Crowds gathered for the opening day St Peter's Lutheran Church Loxton, SA, in March 1926. Photo:
Lutheran Archives OS01 00023
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