Populations on the fields grew with the most durable towns being established where reefing gold was the predominant form of mining.

One such company was the Day Dawn PC, formed after rich deposits of gold were found on land owned by a small group of German miners led by Frederick Pfeiffer.

Pfeiffer and his partners, Messrs Heinrich Paradies, Carl Augustus Reidrich, Hamann, Romberge, Levers and Christian became enormously wealthy with the mine eventually yielding 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) in gold.

While this arrangement was satisfactory initially, in 1885 some members of the Day Dawn PC partnership decided to finance the building of a church for their community.

[1] The Lutheran community remained active in Charters Towers until the First World War, when Pastor G Schafhirt was repatriated to Germany.

From the entry at ground level, the site falls gently to the rear exposing a base of random granite stones.

[1] The side elevations of the nave are punctuated by brick buttresses, with lancet windows between having awning sashes and heads of coloured glass.

[1] The white picket fence runs along the front of the site, and returns part of the way along High Street, past the bell tower.

[1] Church of Christ in Charters Towers was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 May 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

The church is a brick building constructed in 1885-7 which demonstrates the development of the Lutheran community in Northern Queensland, particularly Charters Towers in the 1880s.

The building has aesthetic merit as a simple brick church with Gothic detailing including a steeply pitched roof and lancet windows.

The substantial timber bell tower is a prominent element of the streetscape and reminiscent of the construction of mine headframes once common in the area.

The church, which has been a landmark in Charters Towers since its opening, was an important centre for German cultural and social life for thirty years.