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First Church of Boston
First Church in Boston is a Unitarian Universalist Church (originally Christian Trinitarian) founded in 1630 by John Winthrop 's original Puritan settlement in Boston, Massachusetts . The current building is on 66 Marlborough Street in Boston.
History The church was created in 1630 when the settlers on the Arbella arrived in what is now Charlestown, Massachusetts . Two years later they constructed a meeting house across the Charles River near what is now State Street in Boston. From 1633 to 1652 John Mather was a teaching elder at the church and helped to establish the foundation of the Congregationalist Church . In the 1700s, Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) was a minister at First Church for sixty years and gained a reputation for opposing what he believed was emotionalism during the Great Awakening of Jonathan Edwards . The church eventually transformed into a theologically liberal Unitarian Universalist congregation by the mid-nineteenth century and moved to Back Bay in Boston.
After a fire in 1972, First Church and Second Church merged and built a new building in Back Bay. Second Church had previously broken off from First Church in 1649 and was home to Increase Mather , Cotton Mather , and Samuel Mather from 1664 to 1741.
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