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...
This congregation traces its history back to a Lutheran missionary who organized a Sunday School at West Broadway and 6th Street North in 1890. However, when the missionary left, the Sunday School was abandoned for ten years until 1902 when he returned and a church was organized. For several months...
In 1858, St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church was founded to serve German immigrants who settled in the St. Anthony area. Eleven years later a notice appeared in the December 4, 1869 issue of the German newspaper The Wanderer that construction was to begin on St. Joseph’s Church on Tenth Avenue and...
Established in 1873, St. John’s Evangelical Free Church, initially called the Evangelical Church of St. John’s of America, proudly claims to be one of the first German-speaking churches in North Minneapolis. Its members also take pride in being “very active in the interest of the city’s civic...
The French immigrants who settled around 14th and Girard established a parish in 1884, St. Clothilde, the fifth oldest Catholic parish in Minneapolis. It was a division of the French parish of Notre Dame (Our Lady of Lourdes) and was intended to serve French Catholics on the west side of the...
The French immigrants who settled around 14th and Girard Avenue North established a parish in 1884, St. Clothilde, the fifth oldest Catholic parish in Minneapolis. It was a division of the French parish of Notre Dame (Our Lady of Lourdes) and was intended to serve French Catholics on the west...
“Many efforts have been made by the different American denominations to do mission work among the Scandinavians in the state . . .” This remark was made by two Minneapolis Scandinavians in 1901 (Swedes in Minnesota, p. 276). It wasn’t just the Scandinavians that were ear-marked by so-called...
This congregation was organized in 1909, when it met in the Scandia Club at 1409 Glenwood Avenue, North. In 1910, they purchased the Methodist church at Glenwood and Irving Avenue, North. They stayed there until 1929 when they erected a new church at 1800 Glenwood Avenue, North. The congregation...
A bit of history is necessary to understand the founding of the Pilgrim Congregational Church on the Near North Side. During the 1870s, Plymouth Congregational Church, under its pastor, Henry A. Stimson, began a series of outreach programs for Scandinavian immigrants, and in 1884 established a local...