Eastern Slavs, who did not wish to join St. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church but preferred to follow the Uniate or Byzantine rite, requested that Bishop John Ireland allow them to establish a Byzantine Rite parish. Wishing to avoid the problems that occurred when St. Mary’s made a similar request...
St. Hedwig’s parish was established in 1914 for Polish members of the Holy Cross who had moved further north. St. Clement’s Roman Catholic Church was purchased and moved to 29th Avenue and Grant St. NE. The church was destroyed by fire in 1919 and was replaced that same year by another structure.
...The church was incorporated in 1890 by Slavic immigrants loyal to the Roman Catholic Church. A-frame church was built in 1892 at 16th Ave. NE and Main St. In 1909 the congregation moved to 12th Ave. and 3rd St. and erected a second frame church that burned down in 1911. The present church located...
Immigrants from Ukraine, specifically from Galicia, who began to arrive immediately prior to World War I retained strong national ties to their Ukrainian heritage and were not welcomed into the existing Roman Catholic churches. As a result, at first, they associated with other East Slavs...
Not all the Catholic churches in Northeast Minneapolis were established by a particular ethnic group. St. Clement branched out from St. Anthony of Padua, and according to its records “English was always spoken.” The parish was established in 1902 and initially worshipped in a small frame building...
German Catholic immigrants who began arriving in St. Anthony in the 1850s initially worshipped in St. Anthony of Padua Church, the only Catholic Church in the village. In 1856, thirteen people met with Rev. Francis X. Weninger, a German Jesuit priest, to establish the second Catholic parish in...
In 1849 a group of Roman Catholics under the direction of Fr. Augustin Ravoux constructed a church at Main St. & 9th Ave. NE. Two years later, in 1851, the parish was officially founded. A new church, completed and dedicated by Bishop Cretin in 1852, quickly proved too small, resulting in 1857 in...
Synagogue founded 1937