First Baptist Church of Greater Des Moines

8250 N.W. 62nd Avenue
Johnston, IA 50131


Builder: M.P. Möller, Opus 9835, 1965 Additional work by Darrow Pipe Organ, 2003.
Manuals: 3
Ranks: 30
Action: Electro-pneumatic

Notes: Information from James R. Stettner: This congregation was originally First Baptist in Des Moines, Iowa. They moved to Johnston, IA in 2000 and met in the high school while their new church was being built.

The organ is a Möller rebuild (and enlargement by Darrow) of the congregation's previous instrument which dates from ca. 1965. Exposed pipes on two cantilevered chests on either side of the baptistery. Two chambers behind the exposed pipes. Non-specified electro-pneumatic windchests. New moveable console, which normally resides on the right side of the chancel. Organ Historical Society as of 2013.