The reader board of Kenmore Community Church (formerly Kenmore Baptist Church) has been offering thought-provoking messages through the 1990s and into the new century. Photo courtesy of Kenmore Community Church
Some of the early congregation members of the Kenmore Baptist Church (formerly Kenmore Chapel) gather for a service at the site on Bothell Way. Photo courtesy of Kenmore Baptist Church.
Young people employ spades in the 1950s as they break ground for a new Bethany Baptist Church facility on 62nd Avenue NE. Photo from the Bothell Citizen.
A simple frame building, once the Moorlands Community Club building on NE 166th Street, became Inglemoor Community Church in 1946. An early worshipper waits to greet congregation members. Photo courtesy of Norman Overland.
The congregation of Northlake Lutheran Church dedicated its new church on a hillside above Kenmore in September 1961 after organizing the previous year. Photo courtesy of LeRoy Anenson.
Epiphany Lutheran Church members moved into their new facility on Juanita Drive (68th Avenue NE) in 1961 after meeting in temporary spaces. Photo courtesy of Epiphany Lutheran Church.
Kenmore's first worship group purchased a defunct roadhouse, the Tip Top Inn, in 1934 and founded Kenmore Chapel on Bothell Way at 75th Avenue NE. This 1939 photo depicts how the congregation modified the inn to include a sanctuary and built a bell tower (rear). Photo courtesy of Washington State…
This Episcopal Church, with its soaring façade, opened in 1964, replacing two earlier structures on the same church property at NE 182nd Street and 62nd Avenue NE. Photo courtesy of Church of the Redeemer.
The congregation of Emmanuel Tabernacle mission church at Linwood Heights clusters outside the church in the 1940s. The church name later became Bethel Evangelical Free Church. Photo courtesy of Ruth Rongerude.