Research Items

The following is a collection of houses of worship research items.

Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church

Polish immigrants began to arrive in Northeast Minneapolis in the late 1860s settling in an area known as “the Flats” that extended from Fifth Avenue to Broadway Avenue and from Sibley Street near the Mississippi River to Marshall Street. (“Northeast Minneapolis: A Church on Every Corner”, p. 12)...

Holy Family Maronite Catholic Church

Holy Family Maronite Church (Eastern Catholic). 204 East Robie St. (cor Ada and East Robie).

 Accounts of the formation of this congregation and its early years differ somewhat. The 1936 WPA report says that “a group of Syrians, formerly attending St. Michael’s banded together and organized this...

Hope Chapel

Westminster Presbyterian Church was also part of the American Home Missionary Society’s effort to reach out to recently arrived immigrants. Besides establishing the Fifth Presbyterian Church for its members who had moved into the Oak Lake Addition, Westminster also established Hope Chapel in 1882...