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Organized in 1888, this congregation initially met at 2214 South Sixth Street.  From 1910 to 1920, it was at 2413 Franklin Ave. South, according to the Minneapolis City Directories. 

This congregation was organized by Mrs. Emma Thompson and her daughter, Miss Abigail Dyer Thompson, both of whom trained with Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy.  Mrs. Thompson had trained in the Christian Science Metaphysical College in Boston, which was subsequently closed in 1889. In 1886...

Jewish settlers began arriving in Minneapolis in the early 1870s.  In 1876 they established the Montefiore Burial Association and purchased land on 42^nd Street and 3^rd Avenue South for a cemetery that is still in use.  Two years later many of the same settlers established a Jewish congregation...

Synagogue founded 1937

Organized in July 1908, this congregation held its initial services in the Armory Hall of the National Guard Armory on Kenwood Parkway.  The following spring they moved to the Minneapolis School of Music and Dramatic Art located at 8th and Mary Place. They began work on a new red brick building with...

In 1923, dissident members of Holy Emmanuel (Bohemian Flats) founded this church. The new congregation split because they were in favor of greater lay control and less conservative theology. At the time Holy Emmanuel was the only Slovak Lutheran church. The new church, called Slovak Evangelical...