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Summary: Foss Methodist Episcopal Church formed through a merger of several small Methodist missions, including one known as the “old German Society,” first worshipped in a small white frame church erected in 1873 on the corner of 7th Avenue and 3rd Street north.  It later was moved to 12th and...

In July 1874, about twenty members of First Baptist Church, and a few other Baptists, met in a home located on 11^th Ave. N., in Gale’s Second Addition, with the purpose of organizing a Sunday School. In November 1874, a chapel erected by the Baptist Union at 1819 11^th Avenue N., was dedicated and...

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...

Summary: Frogtown began to be settled as early as the 1860s when French Canadians first moved into the area.  Although they were quickly subsumed by other immigrant groups, particularly Germans, their presence can still be seen in street names.

Body: The Very Reverend Alexius Hoffmann O.S.B...

A breakaway group from Kenesseth Israel, Jewish immigrants from Tavrig, Lithuania, established their own congregation in 1900 naming it after their “hometown” Anshei Tavrig, Men of Tavrig.  The congregation dissolved in 1913 and its synagogue located at 601 North Fourth Street was purchased by a...