Research Items

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

Windom Park Baptist Church, Minneapolis

This congregation was organized in 1888 as a mission of the Baptist Union. It erected a small church on the northeast corner of 13th St. and Madison Ave., NE. They sold the building in 1893 to Elim Swedish Baptist and proceeded to meet in rented halls on Central Ave., later disbanding due to...

Zion Baptist Church, Minneapolis (North Side)

According to the 1936 WPA Report, Zion Baptist Church was organized in 1905 as a daughter church of Bethesda Baptist.  The church, also called a “mission” in the newspaper, was located at Fourth Street and  Sixth Avenue, North, where an existing building was purchased for its use.  A 1907 Minneapoli...

Zion Baptist Church, Minneapolis (Northeast)

Founded in April 1873, this was the first African American congregation formed on the east side of the Mississippi River in the Minneapolis area. It held meetings in the Tremont House under the leadership of R. Hickman. The congregation was reorganized a decade later, holding meetings in a rented...

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

This Norwegian Lutheran congregation formed in 1884 as a daughter of Our Savior's Church (24th and Chicago Ave., South), under the leadership of Rev. O.P. Vangnes, and initially held services in the "German church at 3rd St. and 16th Ave. North" and later in a rented hall (WPA report, p. 1). Joining...

Zion Presbyterian Church/ Welcome Hall Community Center, St. Paul

Organized as a Black mission in 1907 by several white Presbyterian churches in St. Paul, the church was located at 379 Farrington Avenue.  In 1913, the Reverend George W. Camp became the pastor, and he along with his wife Anna helped found the Welcome Hall Community Center in a building adjacent to...

Zion Society for Israel, Minneapolis

According to the WPA Report, in the spring of 1878, a group of Scandinavian Lutherans met in Rochester, Minnesota, to consider organizing a regional "Zion Society for the liberation of Jews."  Their mission was "to work for the conversion and the salvation of Israel." The society was officially...