Research Items

The following is a collection of houses of worship research items.

Talmud Torah of Minneapolis

1895:  Began as a one-room school attached to Kennesset Israel Synagogue.

1910:  Acquired a building at 818 Bassett Place and came under Jewish communal sponsorship. This building was later sold (apparently) to Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House.

1915:  New building erected at 8th Ave. and Fremont...

Temple of Aaron Congregation, St. Paul

Although technically not in Old Rondo, the synagogue located just south of Marshall, the neighborhood’s southern border, was in the midst of a Jewish community that began to develop in the Rondo and the Selby-Dale area as Jewish people began to move out of the River Flats and Lower Town.  A group of...

Temple of Aaron Hebrew School, St. Paul

In 1916, the newly formed Conservative synagogue, Temple of Aaron, located at Ashland and Grotto, established a Hebrew School to provide a Jewish education to the children of descendants of Eastern Europe Jewry, many of whom had initially settled on Saint Paul’s West Side River Flats.  The school...

Test Research Item

Goldy Ipsum. There are faint tracks across this vast campus, leading to little clandestine holes where busy Gophers play. Success is an element in which striving is attainable, but only with big teeth, endlessly gnawing at the challenge around every corner. For here, at this place, failure has no...

Test Research Item 11

Goldy Ipsum. There are faint tracks across this vast campus, leading to little clandestine holes where busy Gophers play. Success is an element in which striving is attainable, but only with big teeth, endlessly gnawing at the challenge around every corner. For here, at this place, failure has no...

The Universal Spiritual Mission, St. Paul

 The Universal Spiritual Mission was an African American congregation founded in 1905 by Reverend J. R. White. They first met in the evenings at the Annex Hall on 116 ½ West Sixth Street. It disbanded in 1912. Rev. White often gave programs with Prof. Roberts in Minneapolis as well.

 

Tifereth B'nai Jacob (originally Tifereth--or Tiferes--Israel), Minneapolis

The exact date that the congregation initially named Tifereth B’nai Israel was founded is uncertain, but it was in existence by 1897. Organized by Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia, the congregation first met in a private home located near Emerson and Eighth Avenue North. A synagogue was built in...

Trinity Apostolic Faith Church

The Evangelical English Lutheran Church of Holy Trinity, an off-shoot of St. Peder's (Danish) that wanted English language services, worshiped at this address from 1908 to 1923.

The Norwegian Lutheran Memorial congregation worshiped at this address in 1922.

The Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church...