The congregation formed on the East Side of St. Paul (near Payne Avenue) in the 1890s, meeting at the homes of Meyer and Jennie Silberstein and Elias and Libby Caminsky. The Sons of Abraham congregation was organized in 1903 when it purchased the large, Moorish-Style, Mount Zion synagogue at East...
Synagogue founded 1937
In 1888, a group of men who came from the Lithuanian section of the Pale of Settlement established a congregation named O’Hel Jacob (Tent of Jacob), the third Jewish congregation established in Minneapolis (Sha’ari Tob and Adath Jeshurun preceded it). Worship services and meetings were held...
The Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society of Mount Zion Temple began sewing classes on the West Side around 1893 for the Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jewish women who began to arrive in St. Paul in 1882. By 1895, the sewing classes had expanded to become an Industrial School for men and moved into a...
Founded on November 17, 1862, this small congregation was affiliated with the denomination called the Church of the New Jerusalem, or the Swedenborgians. The congregation erected a frame church at 5th Avenue South and 9th Street, seating about 120, dedicating it on November 20, 1870. This building...
Anshei Russia (Men of Russia) was formed sometime between 1890 and 1901; the dates vary in the literature. The congregation later changed its name to Mikro Kodesh (Holy Assembly) claiming it did not want to memorialize a country that mistreated its Jewish people. The congregation erected a lovely...
Originally named Ohel [tent of] Jacob, the Kenesseth Israel Congregation was organized in 1888 by Orthodox Jews from Lithuania. The group initially met upstairs of a member's store at 605 2nd Ave. N. They later rented Turner Hall at Washington and 5th Ave. N.
1891: Ohel Jacob Dissolved and the...
An “open door mission” initially named “Jesus Only” was established in 1929 in an old store located at 1204 Washington Avenue South. It was moved to 572 Sixth Avenue North, the heart of the African American and Jewish neighborhood, in 1933. At about that time the name was changed to Hebron...