The first Friends (Quaker) meetings were held in Minneapolis in 1855 in the home of Joseph Canney. in 1860, the congregation erected a wooden framed meetinghouse at 8th Street and Hennepin Ave. with the establishment of the congregation on June 15, 1863. In 1883, the congregation established a mission in a chapel they built at 10th Avenue and 24th Street. In 1886, the congregation, according to Atwater's History of Minneapolis spun off a new group that moved the chapel building Stevens Avenue between 29th and Lake Street.
Category: Church Neighborhood: Downtown Minneapolis