All Saints Episcopal Indian Mission
Worship With Us
We worship on Sundays at 11 am.
Our Liturgy is Inculturated, which means we use Episcopal Christian traditions and rituals that are contextualized and incarnated through practices sacred within local Indigenous cultures. We worship and pray sitting in a circle, a form as sacred to our community today as it has been throughout history.
Our hymns and prayers are in English and local Indigenous languages, including Anishinaabe.
Art, in all its forms, is integrated throughout our sacred space.
Brief History of All Saints
The Episcopal Church in Minnesota has worked among Indigenous communities for more than 150 years.
Mazakute Memorial Church, St. Paul
The first worshipping Native Episcopal Church in the Twin Cities was Mazakute Memorial Church in St. Paul, which began worshipping in 1971, sharing space with St. Phillips, an historically Black Church. The Rev. Leslie Bob Tail Bear was the first priest-in-charge. Mazakute purchased a building in St. Paul in 1974. In 1975, the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota budgeted $38k for the newly developed Urban Indian Ministry in the Twin Cities. Mazakute closed in 1998.
All Saints Episcopal Indian Mission
In the early 1980's what was to become All Saints Episcopal Indian Community began worshipping in a shared space with a Native American Roman Catholic congregation in South Minneapolis. From 1986-87, we were a house church. In 1988, the Trustees of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota purchased our current building from a Nazarene community.
Our building, located at 3044 Longfellow Avenue, was built in 1925 by the first Swedish Independent Baptist Church. The building was extensively remodeled in 2000.
Our Context
Just 1.5 miles north of the All Saints building is Little Earth, a 212-unit section 8 housing with preference for Native People. This neighborhood is home to the highest concentration of Native Peoples in the United States.
Our Taizé Banners
All Saints hosted the brothers of the Taizé community in 2013. The beautiful banners hanging throughout our sanctuary were commissioned and made by the Brothers of Taizé in Neirobi, Kenya. The banners depict the birds of indigenous to North America.