{"id":12991,"date":"2020-11-29T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2021-10-11T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:32:38","slug":"ebenezer-oromo-evangelical-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2020\/11\/29\/ebenezer-oromo-evangelical-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebenezer Oromo Evangelical Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201129janestrauss-web.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12992 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201129janestrauss-web-1024x801.jpg\" alt=\"tall A-shaped brown brick building with two flags on poles in front\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201129janestrauss-web-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201129janestrauss-web-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201129janestrauss-web-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201129janestrauss-web.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oromochurch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ebenezer Oromo Evangelical Church<\/a>, 3901 36th Avenue South<\/p>\n<p>For 57 years after its construction in 1960 in the mid-century modern A-frame style, this building was home to Bethany Lutheran Church LCA. In 2017 the aging congregation sold its building to the Ebenezer Oromo Evangelical Church. Driving by, one hears music emanating from the building and sees the U.S. and Oromo Liberation Front flags waving in a stiff breeze. Oromo refugees started coming to Minnesota from Ethiopia in the 1970s and, by the mid &#8217;80s had formed their own cultural organization. Now they have their own churches and mosques, which have become permanent fixtures in the Minnesota landscape.<\/p>\n<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/oromo-minnesotas-early-settlers-reminisce-and-reflect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/oromo-minnesotas-early-settlers-reminisce-and-reflect\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Jane Strauss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oromo Minnesotans renew church&#8230; Photo: Jane Strauss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12994,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions\/12994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}