Arriving in Minneapolis in 1889, the Roman Catholic Christian Brothers, or Brothers of the Christian Schools, served as teachers in the Immaculate Conception parish in Northeast Minneapolis. In 1900 they established a school on Nicollet Island and took up residence in the former King mansion, which...
A group of ten Jewish men (minyon) living on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats first held services in 1913 in an old church located on Fillmore Avenue. A year later they formed a congregation and joined the Jewish Union of Orthodox Rabbis USA. The congregation erected a stucco and stone synagogue...
Although Episcopal services were held in the region as early as 1842 regular congregational meetings began in 1850, in a schoolhouse on West 3rd Street. The group began erecting a church in the fall of that year on Cedar Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets. During the spring of 1851, the...
Organized by a group of Norwegian Lutherans in 1868, this congregation was incorporated under the name the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Saint Paul. Initially, services were held in homes of members, the old courthouse, and in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. The congregation...
A schism occurred in Pilgrim Baptist Church in 1914 with the result that nearly two hundred of its members left and formed Memorial Baptist Church. The congregation under the leadership of Reverend Joseph Walter Harris purchased Central Swedish Baptist Church [location?] and set about remodeling...
At first Polish Catholics in St. Paul worshipped along with Bohemian Catholics in a small church at the corner of Western Avenue and Superior Street which was named the Parish of St. Stanislaus. However, as their numbers grew, the Poles wanted to organize a distinctly Polish parish where they could...
This church traced its origins to 1876 when a German Catholic group branched out from the Church of St. Joseph in North Minneapolis to organize a St. Vincent Society in South Minneapolis. The St. Vincent Society met in a one-story, frame schoolhouse located on 14th Avenue South between 6th and 7th...