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Meeting of imams

Imams from ten Minnesota mosques (including Abu-Bakar Islamic Center and the Minnesota Da'wa Institute, the state's largest) meet with Ambassador Maman Sidikou of Somalia, October 1, 2015. Photograph by AMISOM Public Information. CCO 1.0

Watt Munisotaram

Watt Munisotaram, a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Hampton, Minnesota, 2021.

Norwegian Synod Church

Norwegian Synod Church, Roseau, ca. 1900.

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (3600 Snelling Avenue, Minneapolis), 1975.

Red Wing Seminary

From 1879 until 1917, Red Wing Seminary was the headquarters of the Hauge Synod, a group of Norwegian American Lutherans who followed the principles of Norwegian lay preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771–1824). The back of the photograph reads, "Red Wing Seminary, Red Wing, Minnesota. Via LTS, Dr. Svendsbye's office, from Bethel Lutheran Church, Lead, S.D., Pastor Emil D. Greiner."

St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church

St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church (505 Fourth Street Northeast) in Minneapolis. Google street view, October 2016.

St. Constantine's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Minneapolis

St. Constantine's Ukrainian Catholic Church (515 University Avenue Northeast) in Minneapolis. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Alexius Horatius, May 9, 2010. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Congregation of Brown’s Chapel, Hastings

The congregation of Brown’s Chapel, Hastings, gathered in front of their church. Photograph by Howard Crosby ca. 1900. The photo was originally published in the Hastings Gazette on September 2, 1949. Pictured are the congregation's minister (in the top hat), brass band musician John Goodman (front row, right), Mrs. Weldon, Mrs. Curry, and Mr. Wallace (at left in the second row). Bill Douglas stands on the platform in the rear.

Burning of Brown’s Chapel AME, Hastings

Sometime past midnight on Friday, November 1, 1907, “the ringing of a fire bell rang out,” as reported in the Hastings Democrat. Brown’s Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) was engulfed in flames. The little white frame church that had stood on the corner of Fifth and Sibley Streets had been established by the Black residents of Hasting’s community. Two weeks prior, they had celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of “having a place of their own."