Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church – Minneapolis

This rare example of a Prairie-style church, originally the Stewart Memorial Presbyterian Church, was designed by Minneapolis architects Purcell and Feick. The main auditorium was built in 1910 and a Sunday school wing was added a decade later. Declining membership and highway construction next to the church in the late 1960s dimmed its future. In 1988, the Baptist congregation bought it and in 1999 began a restoration that has not only brought the unique building back to life, but also adapted it to the congregation’s needs. The result has been both an architectural masterwork and a new community focal point, helping spur the revitalization of the surrounding Lyndale neighborhood.