Churches

 
There are 4 churches in Baldur that our town takes pride in maintaining:  Lutheran Immanuel, St. Mark's Anglican (no services), St. James Catholic, and the United Church.  Grund Frelsis, oldest Icelandic Church in Canada, is just 5 miles north of Baldur.
 

 

 

 Lutheran Immanuel

The Lutheran Immanuel Church in Baldur is on the corner of Oak Creek Road and Carrie Avenue. The Lutheran church was constructed in 1907, by Arni Sveinson. The church is still in very good condition and is a valued piece of our community.

Features:

                            • wood siding
                            • nice central tower
                            • windows

 

 

 

 


 

 St. James Catholic

St. James is a Roman Catholic Church, and is also the newest in Baldur.  Mass is held every Sunday at 9:00 am.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 United Church

Methodists in the Belmont area welcomed their first minister in 1884 and within a year Reverend James Hoskins had added Bethel Methodist to his Otenaw Circuit.  The church moved to Baldur when the community formed in 1889.  Within fifteen years a larger building was required and in 1904 the present church was constructed. The building is a fascinating expression of the Gothic Revival tradition. A variety of window shapes abound—rectangular in the tower, round-arched at the back, the large pointed-arched openings in the nave and in the middle of the tower a very unusual opening based on a Gothic shape called a trefoil.

 

Features:

  • variety of window shapes
  • nice tower/date stone
  • auditorium plan- wood wainscoting