The First Society of the New Church of St. Paul, a Swedenborgian or New Jerusalem congregation, had organized on January 6, 1860, but services were held sporadically. In the winter of 1872-73, a more formal organization was formed in the room of the Y.M.C.A. on 3rd Street. The Reverend Edward Craig...
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.
Czech immigrants initially arrived in the area in 1856. Combining with several Polish families, they organized the parish of St. Stanislaus, which initially met with the Germans in Assumption Church. Occasionally Father Peter Maly would come from New Prague to hold services in Czech. In 1872 the...
St. Paul’s African Mission started as a self-organized group of 6 members. According to Butler, services were conducted by “readers”. When the membership grew in 1875 the congregation decided to ask the Church Mission Society for assistance in purchasing a church building. Their request was granted...
St. Mark’s was officially assembled in 1867 under H. B. Whipple, a bishop of Minnesota’s Episcopal Diocese. In 1868, it was incorporated as St. Mark’s parish and Reverend T. H. Gerry, a white minister, became rector. St. Mark’s first meetings gathered around 12 individuals at a carpenter shop on the...