The congregation was established in 1887 by East Slavs, Carpatho-Rusins, Ukrainians, Ruthenians, and Russians, who began to arrive in the area in 1877; most belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church (Uniate Rite) that was loyal to Rome. Initially, they worshipped in German and Polish...
This church is the first mission of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church located at 4th Avenue and 4th St. SE. It was established in 1891, and its congregants first met in a rented hall and a tent. Hearing of their dire situation, Shiloh Presbyterian Church permitted the congregation to hold services...
This congregation was organized as a mission in 1866 under the leadership of Bishop Thomas Grace, for Irish Catholics living on west side of the Wabasha Bridge, many of whom could not afford the toll required to cross the bridge to attend services in downtown St. Paul. A church was built on Parnell...
A block away from St. Constantine’s Ukrainian Catholic Church is yet another church established by Ukrainian immigrants. In 1917, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was separated from the jurisprudence of the Russian Synod and once again was returning to the practice of Ukrainian traditions. This was...
The Near North Side never developed a large Scandinavian community, such as the one around the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, but there were enough Norwegians that by 1874 a small group who had been worshiping at Trinity Church located at Tenth Avenue South and Fourth Street asked to have a church on...
In 1911 a new building located at Fenton and Kentucky Streets on Saint Paul’s West Side River Flats was constructed by the Orthodox congregations serving the Jewish settlers living in that neighborhood. The small synagogues constructed by the congregations did not have the space or facilities to...
In 1922, 125 members broke from Memorial Baptist Church (est. 1914) to establish St. Paul Independent Baptist Church. The congregation first met in Reverend T. J. Carr’s home at 499 St. Anthony Avenue before moving to a tent in his backyard and later to a storefront location on Rondo Avenue and Kent...