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Minnesota State Fair 2023 Photos: From Pickle Ice Pops to Free Bibles

Check out all the best moments from the Minnesota State Fair 2023 in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

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Dean Wiberg, right, volunteers at the evangelical Crossroads Chapel tent, which distributes thousands of free Bibles during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, on Thursday, August 24, 2023.
Dean Wiberg, right, volunteers at the evangelical Crossroads Chapel tent, which distributes thousands of free Bibles during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, on Thursday, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

ACROSS MINNESOTA — The Minnesota State Fair is officially underway in Falcon Heights, offering up an assortment of unique treats treats served by local clergy. Many of the church's who volunteer end up using proceeds to fund their mission work.

Check out all the top moments from the Minnesota State Fair 2023 below!

Hamline Church Dining Hall volunteer Sally Johnson walks in front of a prayer sign as she prepares for the breakfast rush on opening day of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Thursday, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Hamline Church Dining Hall volunteer Sally Johnson walks in front of a prayer sign as she prepares for the breakfast rush on opening day of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Thursday, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Jim Zieba pours Swedish egg coffee at the Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall – one of two remaining faith-based food concessions – minutes before the opening of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Thursday, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Volunteers bow their heads as Salem Lutheran Church pastor Eric Hoffer, not pictured, offers a prayer before the opening of the dining hall the church operates at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Thursday, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Building Blocks of Islam volunteers Mashood Yunus, seated, and Mahmoud Jawara pray in an upstairs room in the education building where their booth operates during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Thursday, August 24, 2023. Yunus helped start the organization to combat misinformation about Islam. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
A line for breakfast runs down the block outside the popular Hamline Church Dining Hall on the opening day of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Kolby "Jack Cheese" Peters, a 17-year-old Lutheran from Minnesota's West Otter Tail County, wears a cross over his T-shirt in the swine barn where he shows his crossbred Hampshire hog during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Building Blocks of Islam volunteer Sia Lao hands a free copy of the Quran to a visitor at the group's booth in the education building of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Aliza Lamprecht, 7, holds on to a new illustrated Bible she received at the Crossroads Chapel tent before going to volunteer with her family at the cattle barn during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights. Faith has a deep-rooted, crucial presence at the fair, from the evangelical chapel handing out thousands of free Bibles to a booth seeking to combat misinformation about Islam and decades-old Lutheran and Methodist dining halls. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Jeff Knott sprays Lil' Red with water as his daughter, Marin Knott, 16, leads the pig and her sister, Elsie Knott, 13, looks on during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. The devoted Lutheran family likes to patronize the Hamline Church Dining Hall during their stay at the fair, as earlier generations have done when church dining halls were the mainstay for farmers gathering from across the state. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
The Rev. Mariah Furness Tollgaard of Hamline Church works at the to-go counter at the Methodist church's dining hall during the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Finding volunteers for the hundreds of shifts at the popular diner has become a challenge even for this iconic dining hall, founded in 1897. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Two fairgoers walk their sheep on the opening day of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minnesota on Thursday, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

The Associated Press contributed to this post.

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