Massachusetts
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City of Boston

First Church in Boston

First Church in Boston is a Unitarian Universalist Church founded in 1630 by John Winthrop's original Puritan settlement in Boston, Massachusetts. The current building, located in the neighborhood, was designed by Paul Rudolph in a modernist style after a fire in 1968.
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  • Type: Place of worship
  • Description: church
  • Address: 66 Marlborough Street, Boston, 02116

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Statue of John Winthrop and Gibson House Museum.

Work of art
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A by Richard Saltonstall Greenough is installed outside 's First Church, in the U.S. state of .

Museum
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The is a historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. is situated 430 feet northeast of First Church in Boston.

Park
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The Public Garden, also known as , is a large park in the of , , adjacent to . It is a part of the system of parks and is bounded by and Boston Common to the east, Beacon Street and to the north, Arlington Street and to the west, and Boylston Street to the south.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Back Bay-Beacon Hill and Back Bay.

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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of 's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Suburb
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Historical heavyweights, and Beacon Hill are some of 's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Neighborhood
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is the smallest officially recognized neighborhood of , , United States. As of 2010, its population was approximately 1,312 residents living in 837 housing units, most of which are small brick rowhouses.

First Church in Boston

Latitude
42.35365° or 42° 21′ 13″ north
Longitude
-71.07475° or 71° 4′ 29″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
87JC9W3G+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 475367031
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Geo­Names ID
7143497
Wiki­data ID
Q989111
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In Other Languages

From Hungarian to Turkish—“First Church in Boston” goes by many names.
  • Hungarian: “Első templom (Boston)”
  • Hungarian: “Első templom”
  • Japanese: “ボストン第一教会”
  • Turkish: “First Church (Boston)”
  • Turkish: “First Church”

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