St. Paul's United Church of Christ of Laramie was founded in 1886 as the first German language congregation in Wyoming.

[1] With its stained glass windows and heavy wooden furnishings, St. Paul's is reminiscent of rural German churches.

[1] Those elaborate windows and its many simplified Gothic elements make the building unique among Lutheran churches in Wyoming.

The original name for the congregation (which spoke and worshiped in German) was Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische St. Paulus Gemeinde.

[4] During World War I St. Paul's (locally known then as "the German church") and its German-speaking pastor, Rev.