A daughter of Centenary M.E. Church, this congregation was originally organized in 1870 as the Seventh Street Church and was the second M.E. church organized west of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. They met in a building at 7th Street and 12th Avenue South, which they sold in 1882 to the...
The Open Door Congregational Church was established in 1879 on Adams Ave and 13th Ave NE [Mr. P. D. McMillan's House]. The church was originally a mission Sabbath School created by First Congregational Church and was organized and run by the Reverend J. L Scudder and the Reverend Reuben A. Torrey...
Minneapolis has never had a large Italian population, but a number began to arrive in the late 1880s finding jobs working for the railroad. A chapel for Italians was opened in Immaculate Conception Church in 1907, but the small, dark room soon proved inadequate for worship, so St. John’s Lutheran...
Established on December 6, 1869, this congregation, affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, first met in the home of N. C. Aamodt on 11th Avenue South between Washington Avenue and Second Street. It soon began holding services in Trinity Lutheran Church, located at 4th Street and...
A daughter church of Plymouth Congregational, the Park Avenue congregation was founded in 1866 when the Plymouth congregation erected a church on 4th and Vine Streets, naming it Plymouth Chapel. In 1867, the congregation changed its name to the Vine Street Church. In 1871, the congregation began to...
1920: White social workers and philanthropists felt the need for a recreational and housing facility for young black women. However, the Women’s Cooperative Alliance, a local civic-minded women’s organization decided based on a survey they took that a recreational facility for all African Americans...
Pilgrim Baptist was founded by a group of ex-slave African Americans who arrived in St. Paul on May 6, 1863. They had been found adrift on the Mississippi River by the crew of the steamboat “Northerner.” The group had first stayed at Fort Snelling, but the complete story of their arrival in St...