North Minneapolis church home to Black and Jewish history turns 100

Nearly 200 people, most with Jewish ancestry, packed a north Minneapolis Pentecostal church on Sunday afternoon.

The building, 100 years old this year, has significance to both Jewish and Black history in the area.

Constructed in 1926 as Tifereth B’nai Jacob Synagogue, the building at 810 Elwood Avenue North was purchased by an African American Pentecostal congregation and rechristened as the First God of Church in Christ — Graham Temple in 1957…

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