St. Paul’s African Mission started as a self-organized group of 6 members. According to Butler, services were conducted by “readers”. When the membership grew in 1875 the congregation decided to ask the Church Mission Society for assistance in purchasing a church building. Their request was granted...
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a.k.a St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, a daughter church of St. Mark's, was established on June 21, 1880. The congregation built a frame church at 12th Street and Hennepin Avenue, which was dedicated that year. The congregation moved to a larger, stucco church...
This is the first German Lutheran Church, formerly with the Iowa Synod, which merged with the Joint Synod of Ohio and Buffalo forming the American Lutheran Church. It is the daughter of St. Petri Lutheran Church, located at 18th Avenue and Dupont Avenue No. Established in 1890, the congregation...
The sixteenth-century Spanish missionary to Africa, Peter Claver, was canonized in 1888 when Archbishop John Ireland began a missionary effort to attract African Americans to join the Catholic Church. Three years later enough African Americans had converted to Catholicism that it became necessary...
Established on the west side of the river as a mission Sunday School of the St. James A.M.E. Church (located in St. Anthony), the initial meetings were in Heaton's Hall at Washington and Nicollet. The mission was named the Neal Union Mission. Soon after, larger space in Freer Hall at 110 Washington...
This congregation was established on October 16, 1887, by German immigrants who purchased a small chapel built by Highland Park Presbyterian Church. In 1894, the congregation erected a new church at 1800 Dupont Ave. N.
Pastors: John Weyrauch, 9/1887-11/1887; E. Neundorf 1887-8; Herman Fritschel...
St. Petri Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church was established in 1887 as a daughter church of Trinity Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and a member of the Old Norwegian Conference. Its founders were part of Trinity Lutheran Church and began holding meetings in private homes and, a short time...