For over a century, University Baptist Church has occupied its lovely building at the corner of University Avenue and 13th Avenue SE. In light of this stability, it’s amazing to consider the dynamic pattern of building and moving seen in the congregation’s earlier history, when they used at least six different spaces in a period of seventy years or so. 

Not only did UBC have many different worship places, but the church also preceded and succeeded other religious communities in particular buildings: nearly all these groups were on the move in those early years. Such intertwining stories and relationships were part of the fascinating saga of the “triplet” cities of St. Anthony, St. Paul, and Minneapolis, where allegiances and connections along neighborhood, geographical, and denominational lines formed the bedrock of the UBC building stories.