This congregation was organized in 1889 by members who withdrew from Shiloh Presbyterian. They held their first meetings in the Odd Fellows Hall at 2320 Harrison St. (now Central Avenue), and in 1890 built a church at 26th Ave. and Taylor St. NE. This building was later sold to the Philadelphia...
Organized in 1876 and located in a rented house on 6th Street, SE, this home for unwed mothers was incorporated as Bethany Home in 1879. In 1885 it moved to a building erected by T. B. Walker on 17th Street. Later the home moved to 3719 Bryant Ave., South. Bethany Home was renamed Harriet Walker...
This congregation was formed on January 15, 1902, when some 400 members of Trinity Lutheran Church withdrew in support of minister M. Falk Gjertsen, who had been accused of unchristian behavior. The congregation, with Gjertsen at its head, initially met in a hall at 26th Avenue and East Franklin in...
Established in 1896. The congregation initially rented Union Chapel Hall at Case and Forest, and later rented Baptist MIssion Hall at Walsh and Jenks Streets.
1898: Erected church at 986 Forest
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was established as a mission by Saint Paul’s St. James AME Church in 1915 with 10 members. The congregation first met on Mississippi Street between Archer and Genesee Streets. In 1920, membership totaled more than 100. In 1921, they purchased a white church...
Sources differ on the organization of this African American congregation, but it was most likely started around 1887 (WPA Report) or 1889 (Chapin). At its founding, the congregation had around fifteen members (WPA report) or 25 members (Atwater), but by the 1930s that number had increased to 250...
In 1946 this congregation changed its name from "First Swedish Baptist" to "Bethlehem Baptist". See https://housesofworship.umn.edu/node/528
See Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dayton's Bluff
Coming together initially to build a school in 1886, this German Lutheran congregation organized on April 11, 1887, as a church, a daughter church of Zion Evangelical Lutheran (Sycamore and Courtland Sts). The congregation built a frame church at 661 Forest Street in 1888 and rebuilt the building in...
Founded in 1894, this congregation met in a church on the corner of 14th Avenue South and 18th Street. In 1923, the congregation merged with the Golgotha Evangelical Lutheran Church. Despite the merger, the two congregations continued to meet in their home buildings, Bethlehem's at 14th and 18th...