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...
On October 27, 1880, several members of Welsh descent began holding Sunday evening prayer meetings at the home of Mr. D. H. Evans. They soon began to rent the Norwegian Church on 19th Avenue South, between 5th and 6th Streets. They organized their church in April 1881, at the corner of Franklin and...
Location: 30th Ave S. and 33rd St.
The Vanderburgh congregation’s original church burned in 1913, and all church records were lost. The congregation erected this building in the same year and worshiped in it until about 1937.
Leadership: Rev. Frank Zimmerman, Rev. L.C. Badger, Rev. William...
In 1884, the Tabernacle Baptist Mission was organized at Riverside and 24th Avenue. The mission included an industrial school, Sunday school, and gospel meetings. As the mission grew, it moved to a larger building across the street, and in 1886 purchased or bought (sources differ) a brick building...