Bethlehem Baptist Church
Authored by Grace Ogilby (2012) with contributions by Iris Steiner-Manning (2024).
Located just blocks from the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Bethlehem Baptist Church is an evangelical church with an impressive history in Minnesota. Originally formed in 1871 by a group of 22 Swedish Baptists, the church has become a center of evangelical Christianity in Minnesota. Bethlehem Baptist is a complex case study in how evangelical churches can defy categorization, on political and religious levels.
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