First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1207 North Broadway in Knoxville, TN 37917. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 9 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Come to First Lutheran Church to receive and serve our God and our neighbors in need.
Welcome to First Lutheran Church. Here we stand on the foundation of Jesus Christ and His Word. We are a historic congregation with worship, study, and life together that treasure the truth and beauty of Biblical Lutheran theology and the culture of the Reformation Era as well as doctrinally pure expressions of the Christian faith and life from around the globe and throughout history.
1207 North Broadway, Knoxville, TN, 37917Service times
Saturday, August 22, 2026, from 11:00am (as listed)
Phone: (865) 524-0308 · Website: https://www.firstknoxville.org/
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 109 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Tennessee — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Ministries at First Lutheran Church
- First Lutheran School
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Latest from First Lutheran Knoxville's YouTube channel: The Glory of God Is the Passion and Cross of Christ Jesus, 8/30/2026 (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (15.9–30.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (13.0–26.9%)
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.3–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Fourth United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Glen Oak United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Knoxville Connect Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Knoxville Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Broadway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Knoxville House of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Southern Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (Knoxville, Tennessee) — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Ghost Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Point Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christus Victor Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away
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