St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church, Minneapolis
Separated from the St. Lawrence Roman Catholic congregation in 1926, the Newman Center was merged back with the church in 1998.
Research Items
The following is a collection of houses of worship research items.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Saint Paul
St. Mark’s was officially assembled in 1867 under H. B. Whipple, a bishop of Minnesota’s Episcopal Diocese. In 1868, it was incorporated as St. Mark’s parish and Reverend T. H. Gerry, a white minister, became rector. St. Mark’s first meetings gathered around 12 individuals at a carpenter shop on the...
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
This congregation traces its history back to a Lutheran missionary who organized a Sunday School at West Broadway and 6th Street North in 1890. However, when the missionary left, the Sunday School was abandoned for ten years until 1902 when he returned and a church was organized. For several months...
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, Minneapolis
Founded in 1858 by Gethsemane P. E. Church as a mission, the congregation first met in a wooden building at Washinton and 22nd Avenue North, on a lot donated by Captain J. C. Reno. The building was moved in 1863 to a lot donated by H. T. Welles and Franklin Steele at the corner of Hennepin Avenue...
St. Maron's (Maronite) Catholic Church, Minneapolis
As early as 1895, about thirty families from Syria (now Lebanon) were residing in northeast Minneapolis and worshipped in Roman Catholic Churches. Desirous of a church of their own where they could practice their Maronite Catholic rite, they purchased a residence in 1903 at 321 Main St. NE that...