The Tabernacle at Vår Frues Gate 2 served as the meeting place for the Baptist congregation from when the building was erected in 1885 until 1913. It was here that Marie Stengel gave one of her first performances on February 19, 1895. Marie Stengel was a Christian preacher and one of the pioneers of Sámi organization after 1900. She always performed in Sámi clothing, spoke the Sámi language from the stage, and talked about the Christian faith, temperance, and the Sámi people's "oppressed position." Marie lived for a long time at Gjetveita 9 and was a seamstress before becoming a full-time preacher around 1895. Marie participated in the First Sámi National Congress in 1917, where a portrait of her was painted. The portrait is currently displayed in the Sámediggi (the Sámi Parliament). 

Marie Stengel was from Røros and used the surnames Christiansen or Kjelsberg before adopting the name Stengel. After she married, she took her husband's surname, Finskog. As a child, Marie was one of the poor Sámi children in Røros who was placed with Norwegian foster parents, both as a form of welfare and as part of an effort to assimilate them. The aim of this arrangement was for Marie and the other children to become Norwegian. They were meant to forget the Sámi language and culture and cease being Sámi.