Browse Sites (37 total)
Sikh Gurdwara
The Sikh Society of Minnesota emerged about thirty years ago. It began as a group of between five and ten families who gathered in homes to worship together. They gathered in homes where a Guru Granth Sahib was installed, or else brought it to a home for worship. Eventually, as the local Sikh…
St. Louis Park Eruv (Jewish Neighborhood)
St. Louis Park, an inner-ring suburb which borders the west side of Minneapolis, has a disproportionately large population of observant Jews, and close-knit Orthodox and Conservative communities are based there. Several of the city’s congregations, such as the Orthodox Kenesseth Israel and the…
Ten Commandments Monuments in Minnesota
On the corner of Division Street and Central Avenue in Faribault, Minnesota, out in front of the Thomas Scott Buckham Memorial Library, stands a brownish-red granite monument, its rough edges and double-tablet shape reminiscent of a tombstone, with the Ten Commandments etched into its face. Why…
Theravada Dhamma Society of America
A Theravada Buddhist Center in Chisago City, supported by the Theravada Dhamma Society of America founded by Ashin Dr. Nyanissara.
Watt Munisotaram
Watt Munisotaram is a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Hampton, Minnesota, about thirty minutes south of the Twin Cities and just a few miles from Farmington. The community, the Minnesota Cambodian Buddhist Society, has been established for twenty five years, but it was not until 2007 that they opened a…
