St. Hedwig’s parish was established in 1914 for Polish members of the Holy Cross who had moved further north. St. Clement’s Roman Catholic Church was purchased and moved to 29th Avenue and Grant St. NE. The church was destroyed by fire in 1919 and was replaced that same year by another structure.
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Minneapolis’ St. James African Methodist Church is the oldest African American congregation and church in Minnesota. The congregation started meeting in 1860 for prayer meetings at Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown’s home at 4th Street Southeast near 2nd Street Southeast in Saint Anthony. In addition to Mr...
The organization date for this congregation is uncertain, but it was organized under Thomas Wise from Chicago in order to create a group in Saint Paul under the Indiana Conference. William H. Brown, another important person in the church's history, had been a slave, soldier in a Black regiment, and...
Eastern Slavs, who did not wish to join St. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church but preferred to follow the Uniate or Byzantine rite, requested that Bishop John Ireland allow them to establish a Byzantine Rite parish. Wishing to avoid the problems that occurred when St. Mary’s made a similar request...
Established May 28, 1883, by primarily German residents, this congregation was the first Lutheran church in the Twin Cities to use the English language from its beginning. In 1881, prior to the formation of the congregation, one Dr. W. A. Passavant bought a church building from the Swedish...
Established in 1873, St. John’s Evangelical Free Church, initially called the Evangelical Church of St. John’s of America, proudly claims to be one of the first German-speaking churches in North Minneapolis. Its members also take pride in being “very active in the interest of the city’s civic...
The founders of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church established in 1869 were from German-speaking areas of Central Europe. The first meetings were held in the home of Christian Mulchow at 917 Marshall St. NE. The group soon moved to Little Red Schoolhouse at 13th and Main St. NE, and then to an...
In 1858, St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church was founded to serve German immigrants who settled in the St. Anthony area. Eleven years later a notice appeared in the December 4, 1869 issue of the German newspaper The Wanderer that construction was to begin on St. Joseph’s Church on Tenth Avenue and...