A group of people began holding Congregationalist meetings in the new Dayton's Bluff neighborhood on November 21, 1882 in the home of George M. and Elizabeth Gage on Bates Avenue at Van Buren Place. At a second meeting on December 2 of the same year, the group met to form a church. On December 10...
Augustana Lutheran Church was established on April 16, 1866, by Swedish and Lutheran immigrants. According to the WAP Report (L. Hallgrains, 1936), the few Swedish families began meeting in homes for services in 1857. By 1865, services were held in Chutes schoolhouse, or, more commonly, in the home...
Not all the Jewish people who emigrated to Minneapolis came from the region of Eastern Europe known as the Pale of Settlement that was part of Czarist Russia. Others came from Romania, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Few in number, their customs and traditions while similar to...
The Basilica of St. Mary is a Roman Catholic Church which was the first of its kind in the area, originally called the Church of Immaculate Conception. The structure was constructed from 1907-1913. It was planned by Archbishop John Ireland and architect Emmanuel Masqueray and funded by the efforts...
Organized in 1916 by another group of Lithuanians who split off of Kenesseth Israel, Bet Ahron (House of Aaron) initially worshipped in a synagogue located at 726 Bryant Avenue North. By the 1920s the congregation was known as Sharei Zedek (Gates of Justice); its building was razed by the federal...
Beth David was a small Orthodox congregation organized in 1917 by fifteen men living on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats. The congregation was a member of the Jewish Union of Orthodox Rabbis, USA. In about 1919, the congregation purchased the Clinton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church located at...
The second Conservative synagogue in Minneapolis (Adath Jeshuran on the South Side is the first), Beth El was organized in 1921 by young, mainly second generation Jews who had attended Talmud Torah, a Zionist after-school Hebrew academy. A lot was purchased in 1906 on the corner of Penn Avenue North...
Organized in the late 1880s by a group of men living in the Lower Town area of Saint Paul, the congregation numbering around 85 initially met at 50 W. 10th St. before moving into a building located at 165 State Street on the West Side river flats.Rabbi Isaac Lichtenberg served as the congregation’s...