winbrook is situated in South-West Belfast near Dunmurry and a few miles from Lisburn.  It was intended to re-house families displaced by Falls and Shankill redevelopment schemes.  The first allocation of eighty houses was in the Laburnum area.  This grew to approximately 1800 houses with a population of 7400 and a primary school enrolment of 1200.  It was officially opened by the then Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Mr James Chichester-Clarke on the 17^th of February 1971.

Twinbrook was initially part of Derriaghy Parish but on the 1^st of August 1976 it became a parish in its own right.  The Parish initially worshiped in a temporary church, St Mark's, which went on to serve the Parish of the Nativity (Poleglass).  A second temporary church, St Luke's, came from Sligo and served as the centre of spiritual life of the parish until construction of a permanent place of worship was complete.

The foundation stone of St Luke's Church was blessed by Pope John Paul II on Sunday 30^th of September 1979 at Knock, Co. Mayo.  The church was dedicated on Sunday 22^nd of March 1981, five years after the establishment of the parish and ten years after the estate of Twinbrook was first built.

In the booklet produced for the church opening, the then Bishop, Most Reverend William J. Philbin wrote,

"The opening of St Luke's church will be noted with pleasure throughout all of Down & Connor because your priests have sought help in all the parishes of the Diocese.  They have been received with welcome and extraordinary generosity wherever they went.  Your benefactors knew that their charity was well deserved and was needed in the circumstances of particular difficulty in which your newly created parish found itself.  They will now recognise that their donations were put to good account when they learn about and, as we hope, come to visit this splendid new place of worship in Twinbrook which is a monument to the faith and the fellowship of the whole diocese of Down & Connor."

In 2000 the church closed for some renovation work and was reopened and rededicated six months later on Sunday the 23^rd of July by the Most Reverend Dr Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor.