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...
The exact date that the congregation initially named Tifereth B’nai Israel was founded is uncertain, but it was in existence by 1897. Organized by Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia, the congregation first met in a private home located near Emerson and Eighth Avenue North. A synagogue was built in...
Although technically not in Old Rondo, the synagogue located just south of Marshall, the neighborhood’s southern border, was in the midst of a Jewish community that began to develop in the Rondo and the Selby-Dale area as Jewish people began to move out of the River Flats and Lower Town. A group of...
1895: Began as a one-room school attached to Kennesset Israel Synagogue.
1910: Acquired a building at 818 Bassett Place and came under Jewish communal sponsorship. This building was later sold (apparently) to Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House.
1915: New building erected at 8th Ave. and Fremont...
In 1911 a new building located at Fenton and Kentucky Streets on Saint Paul’s West Side River Flats was constructed by the Orthodox congregations serving the Jewish settlers living in that neighborhood. The small synagogues constructed by the congregations did not have the space or facilities to...
Immigrants from Syria and Lebanon began arriving in the Twin Cities in the 1890s, and many settled on the West Side of Saint Paul. These groups held services in their homes when an Orthodox priest was available. In 1913, a congregation was formally organized, and in 1917 the group purchased the...
The congregation was organized in 1883 by newer Russian Jewish immigrants who did not want to affiliate with the already established Orthodox Sons of Jacob synagogue generally known as a “Polish” congregation. Naming their new congregation the Sons of Zion, its members initially met in a tent set...
Established in 1909, this Orthodox congregation erected a synagogue at 271 13th Street. The congregation was rebuilt in the same location after the synagogue was destroyed by fire in 1931.