Laši Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Augšdaugava district of Selija. It is part of Daugavpils Diocese, Daugavpils District.
The oldest Lutheran church in Laši was built before 1596 in Pabēržiai near today's Latvian-Lithuanian border during the reign of Friedrich Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia. In 1610 the church was moved to the Laši estate, whose owner Gerhard von Füttninghoff founded an independent vicarage in Laši in 1639. In the family of Hermann Konrad Stender (1684-1755), who was pastor of Laši parish in 1714. In 1805 the current stone church building was erected, which was renovated in 1888, 1936-1937 and 2004. Inside the church, the original altar, pulpit and altarpiece "Christ on the Cross" and the baroque organ from 1789 have been preserved. The bell donated in 1936 is located in the bell tower.
During the First World War, from 1915, the church in Laši was in the German occupation zone. In the church garden there are graves of fallen German soldiers, and inside, on the west wall, there is a memorial plaque to the people of the Laši parish who died in World War I and were oppressed in the Soviet Union (Wikipedia).
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