This congregation was organized as Ascension Church on April 4, 1856. Led by then-deacon David Knickerbaker, the church became so closely identified with the Reverend Knickerbaker that it was often called Knickerbaker's church. The congregation met for several months in a hall on Helen Street...
Founded in 1908, this congregation met in a church at the corner of 32nd Street and Pleasant Avenue South in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood. The congregation merged with Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1923 but continued to meet in its own church. In 1927, the merged congregation moved...
This organization was a home mission founded on October 31, 1887, by Protestant missionaries, William A. Petran, Mrs. William A. Petran, H. J. Peterson, W.A. Grant, and William Ashton. The mission was located in the heart of the immigrant area at 29 Washington Avenue South. It was relocated in...
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church was an outgrowth of an effort to establish a congregation for the hearing impaired German immigrants. In 1898 the first services for the hearing impaired were held at the YMCA located on 10th and LaSalle in downtown Minneapolis. Three years later regular worship...
A daughter church to Emanuel Lutheran Church, the congregation was established in 1914. Emanuel Lutheran Church rented a chapel at 27th Avenue and Lincoln St. NE for a Sunday School. As the Sunday School grew, Emanuel purchased the chapel and two lots for a separate congregation originally named...
Originally named People's Church of Hazel Park, Hazel Park Congregational Church was founded on October 24, 1895, by a group of community members led by Dr. Samuel George Smith (also the founder of the U of M Sociology Department).
In the late 1890s, the congregation erected a frame church on White...
Established in 1878, Shaarai Tov, or "the gates of goodness," was the first Jewish congregation to form in Minneapolis. The congregation initially met in the home of Leopold Ehrlich and then for two years in Center Hall. In 1880, they built a wooden framed, Moorish-style synagogue at the southwest...
An “open door mission” initially named “Jesus Only” was established in 1929 in an old store located at 1204 Washington Avenue South. It was moved to 572 Sixth Avenue North, the heart of the African American and Jewish neighborhood, in 1933. At about that time the name was changed to Hebron...