Tabernacle Baptist Church, Minneapolis

In 1884, the Tabernacle Baptist Mission was organized at Riverside and 24th Avenue.  The mission included an industrial school, Sunday school, and gospel meetings.  As the mission grew, it moved to a larger building across the street, and in 1886 purchased or bought (sources differ) a brick building at 8th Street and 23rd Avenue South, on Murphy Park. According to Atwater, the new mission included "a free dispensary, library, reading room, study, infant and other classes."  Some 900 children were served by the mission.   The Tabernacle Baptist Church was organized out of this mission on October 10, 1889.