The congregation formed on the East Side of St. Paul (near Payne Avenue) in the 1890s, meeting at the homes of Meyer and Jennie Silberstein and Elias and Libby Caminsky. The Sons of Abraham congregation was organized in 1903 when it purchased the large, Moorish-Style, Mount Zion synagogue at East...
Established in 1909, this Orthodox congregation erected a synagogue at 271 13th Street. The congregation was rebuilt in the same location after the synagogue was destroyed by fire in 1931.
The congregation was organized in 1883 by newer Russian Jewish immigrants who did not want to affiliate with the already established Orthodox Sons of Jacob synagogue generally known as a “Polish” congregation. Naming their new congregation the Sons of Zion, its members initially met in a tent set...
A daughter of Assumption Church founded in 1855 for German immigrants, St. Agnes was one of three Catholic churches established in St. Paul in the 1880s to service the need of the city’s growing immigrant population. (The others were Saint Adalbert’s for the Polish and Saint Vincent de Paul for the...
“Many efforts have been made by the different American denominations to do mission work among the Scandinavians in the state . . .” This remark was made by two Minneapolis Scandinavians in 1901 (Swedes in Minnesota, p. 276). It wasn’t just the Scandinavians that were ear-marked by so-called...
The French immigrants who settled around 14th and Girard Avenue North established a parish in 1884, St. Clothilde, the fifth oldest Catholic parish in Minneapolis. It was a division of the French parish of Notre Dame (Our Lady of Lourdes) and was intended to serve French Catholics on the west...