(Information quoted from A History of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary by Philip von Rohr Sauer, booklet held in the research room of the […] Read More
Category: Churches
Area Churches
This local church was organized on May 16, 1925. The first meeting place was at the church built on a corner lot at 824 America […] Read More
Methodist Episcopal Church/First Methodist Church/United Methodist Church In 1898, some citizens of the community started working on establishing a new Methodist congregation and appealed to […] Read More
Father Philip Murphy was the first priest to hold services in Bemidji. He was educated in Brooklyn, New York, and completed his studies at St. […] Read More
The Aardahl Lutheran Church, which is located in Section 30 of Frohn township, was organized in 1896 at an organizational meeting held in the home […] Read More
The work at Northern was started in 1928 when Oak Hills Fellowship entered the willow grove area, four miles northwest of Northern. Ten years later, […] Read More
Rev. Lars O. Opsata held the first public service of this congregation in the home of Syvert Dokken on August 4, 1898. At this service […] Read More
Ensign Miller and Lieutenant Worman organized the local branch in 1899. “The Salvation Army started work here Dec 6, 1899 under Ensign I. G. Miller of […] Read More
The Nymore Lutheran Church had its beginning in 1905, when a small group of devout Christians met at the home of Mathew and Marie Larson […] Read More
The First Presbyterian Church of Bemidji, Minnesota, has the distinction of being the first pioneer church in Bemidji. It had its beginning when a group […] Read More
Peter Dahlquist, a lay missionary from Warren, Minnesota came to Bemidji in the spring of 1905. He was 61 years old. Bemidji was a rough […] Read More
The first meeting for the winter of the First Spiritualist Church was held at the opera house Sunday evening, November 22, 1902. The Bemidji orchestra […] Read More
The First Baptist Church had its beginning on Sept 22, 1898 when a small group of people met in the chapel car, Glad Tidings, with […] Read More
The First Seventh Day Adventist Church Bemidji was organized in 1918 as an associate of the Seventh Day Adventist organization. Elder M. Ruskjer was the […] Read More