Immanuel Lutheran Church, Light Pass
The elder of Light Pass's twin Lutheran churches, an 1886 building serving a congregation that dates from the 1840s.
German families settled Light Pass in 1845, and the Immanuel congregation gathered soon afterwards under Pastor August Kavel, the spiritual leader of South Australia's first Lutheran migration. A school was among the first structures the settlers raised - faith and education arrived in the village together.
The present church was opened and dedicated on 29 November 1886, with its tower added in 1930, and it remains a dignified piece of Barossa church-building in local stone. Its story is inseparable from the building down the road: in 1860 a group of families split from Immanuel over matters of doctrine and founded Strait Gate Lutheran Church barely two hundred metres away, giving the tiny village its remarkable pair of churches.
Seeing both, then calling in at the pioneer cottage museum nearby, makes Light Pass one of the best short heritage stops in the valley - a hamlet where the whole sweep of Barossa settler history plays out along a few hundred metres of road.
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