Churches & worship in Esko, Minnesota
Part of the Esko neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Esko is served by 3 congregations, including Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions. Where a congregation has its own record in the guide, its name links through to it.
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod congregation serving Esko, at 4 Elizabeth Avenue, with roots in the immigrant farm families who settled Thomson Township. The LCMS locator reports 439 confirmed members and average weekly attendance of 169 for 2024, which makes it one of the largest regular gatherings in the community after the school.
The nearest Catholic parish, in Cloquet about 10 minutes west, serving Esko and the Thomson Township area.
ELCA congregation at 615 12th Street in Cloquet, one of the larger Lutheran congregations in Carlton County.
Service times change, confirm with each congregation.
Churches & worship next door
Ten minutes west, the county's largest city, with the grocery, hospital, and restaurants Esko does not have.
CarltonSouthwest at the Jay Cooke gateway, the county seat, which absorbed the former city of Thomson in 2015. Similar rural river-corridor character with its own ISD 93 schools.
ProctorFifteen minutes northeast up I-35, an older railroad town with a small district and much lower prices.
HermantownThe other small-district family suburb in the metro, newer housing and closer to Duluth retail.