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Certain Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist congregations (churches, societies, fellowships, etc.) have particular historic or other significance.
Numerous Unitarian churches are notable for having historic buildings, and there are former church buildings that are historic, too. There are numerous Unitarian churches that are listed buildings in England, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, or that are noted on other historic registers.
This article includes churches notable either as congregations or as buildings or as both.
Canada
| Church | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto | 
|
1845 founded 1950s current building |
43°41′10″N 79°24′09″W / 43.686157°N 79.402463°W |
Toronto | Founded in 1845, the second one in Canada following the congregation in Montreal. |
| Unitarian Church of Montreal | 1842 founded | Montreal | The first Unitarian church in Canada, founded in 1842.[citation needed] | ||
| Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax | 1837 founded | Halifax | The first Universalist church in Canada, founded in 1837.[1] | ||
| First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa | 1898 founded[2] | Ottawa | Founded in 1898, currently the largest Unitarian Universalist congregation in Canada. |
India
Indian Council of Unitarian Churches —ICUU
- Khasi Unitarian Union: 9,000 members[3]
- The Unitarian Christian Church of Chennai
- Menad Street, Purusa Walkam
- No. 12, Thousand Lights, Azizmulk, 4th Street, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India[4]
Philippines
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines (UUCP)
Romania
The Unitarian Church of Transylvania includes a number of individual churches, several with notable historic murals.
| Church | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unitarian church, Dârjiu | 
|
13th century | Dârjiu | Unitarian fortified church, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Murals, dating back to the Roman Catholic period, show King Ladislaus I of Hungary's legend. | |
| Unitarian church, Braşov | 
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Braşov | |||
| Unitarian church, Cluj-Napoca | 
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Cluj-Napoca | |||
| Unitarian church, Crăciunel | Crăciunel | Has notable mural | |||
| Unitarian church, Cristuru Secuiesc | Cristuru Secuiesc | Has notable mural | |||
| Unitarian church, Inlăceni | 
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Inlăceni | Ceiling has a statement rendered in Old Hungarian script | ||
| Unitarian church, Mugeni | Mugeni | Has notable mural | |||
| Unitarian church, Rugăneşti | Rugăneşti | Has notable mural | |||
| Unitarian church, Şimoneşti | 
|
Şimoneşti |
United Kingdom
The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches counts about 180 churches as members. The following have articles on Wikipedia:
- Essex Church, the first Unitarian church in England, moved in 1880s from central London to Kensington
- Newington Green Unitarian Church, north London
- Octagon Chapel, Norwich
- Cross Street Chapel, Manchester. The Dissenters' Meeting House was opened in 1694 and holds a special place in the growth of nonconformism within the city. It became a Unitarian meeting-house c.1761.[5] It was wrecked by a Jacobite mob in 1715, rebuilt and destroyed during a World War II air raid in December 1940. A new building was constructed in 1959 and the present structure dates from 1997.
- Rivington Unitarian Chapel, near Manchester
- Chowbent Chapel, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. Building dates from 1721. Building designated a Grade II* Listed building in 1966.[6]
- Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool
- Todmorden Unitarian Church, in Yorkshire
- Underbank Chapel, in Sheffield
- Upper Chapel, in Sheffield
- Brighton Unitarian Church, 1820, built by Amon Henry Wilds
United States
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This is a list intended to cover notable churches organized by state then city, including many that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
California
| Church | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Unitarian Church (Berkeley, California) | 1898 built 1981 NRHP-listed |
2401 Bancroft Way 37°52′7″N 122°15′36″W / 37.86861°N 122.26000°W |
Berkeley, California | ||
| Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County | 1953 founded | Near Modesto, California | The only Unitarian Universalist congregation, in Stanislaus County, which is within California's Central Valley. Has oldest building of any church in the county, owned by this congregation since the 1960s. | ||
| Pacific Unitarian Church | 1957 founded 1965 building built |
Rancho Palos Verdes, California | Recognized as a "Breakthrough Congregations" in 2008 based on growth, ministry, and donations.[7] | ||
| First Unitarian Church of Oakland | 
|
1891 built 1977 NRHP-listed |
685 14th Street 37°48′23″N 122°16′36″W / 37.80639°N 122.27667°W |
Oakland, California | |
| Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside | 
|
founded 1892 built 1978 NRHP-listed |
Riverside, California | Norman English Gothic architecture | |
| Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, California | 
|
1952 founded 1905 building built |
300 East Santa Inez Avenue | San Mateo, California | In 1971 this church, founded in 1952, purchased a former Methodist, Carpenter Gothic whose construction was started in 1905. |
| First Unitarian Church of San Jose | 
|
1892 built 1977 NRHP-listed |
160 N. Third Street 37°20′23.02″N 121°53′23.65″W / 37.3397278°N 121.8899028°W |
San Jose, California | |
| Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church | 1959 founded 2000 building built |
Walnut Creek, California | |||
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- Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. Often abbreviated UUCB.
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin. Often abbreviated UUCM.
- Throop Unitarian Universalist Church of Pasadena was founded in 1887 by Amos Throop and is the largest ex-Universalist church building west of the Mississippi River.[8]
- First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
District of Columbia
- All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.) on Harvard Street in DC, was founded in 1821 by (among others) John Quincy Adams, and has spawned many Unitarian congregations in the Joseph Priestley District.
- Universalist National Memorial Church
Florida
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Myers in Fort Myers, Florida
- First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches, North Palm Beach, FL
Massachusetts
- First Parish Church in Dorchester, MA is the oldest worshiping congregation in the city of Boston. It was founded in 1630.[9]
- The First Parish in Wayland, MA was erected in 1814, although the congregation first gathered in 1640. The original church bell, still hanging in the recently renovated bell tower, was cast by the foundry of Paul Revere and Son.
- Arlington Street Church (founded 1729 in Boston) was the congregation of William Ellery Channing and Dana McLean Greeley. The congregation played a large role in the origin and foundation of the faith and has been a leader in social justice causes. It is considered by many to be the 'Mother Church' of the faith.[10]
- First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Framingham, MA, founded in 1700.
- First Parish Church in Plymouth, founded in 1606 by Pilgrims, is the oldest church in continuous operation in the United States [citation needed]
- First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist[11] in Duxbury, Massachusetts, was founded in 1632 by Pilgrims. The Elder William Brewster (Pilgrim) was the church's first religious leader, and the church included John Alden and Myles Standish as members. It was the second religious body of the Plymouth Colony.
- First Unitarian Church (Second Parish in the Town of Worcester), founded in 1785 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first minister was Aaron Bancroft the first president of the American Unitarian Association. Current membership is 450.[citation needed]
- Follen Church Society of Lexington, Massachusetts, was, from 1836 to 1838, the last pulpit of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Its unique octagonal sanctuary was designed by first minister Charles Follen, a noted abolitionist.
- First Unitarian Society in Newton
- Foxborough Universalist Church, Unitarian Universalist Association is the oldest church building in Foxborough. It was founded in 1838 and built in 1843.[12]
- King's Chapel in Boston is one of the oldest New England churches of any denomination (1688), and is on the Freedom Trail. It is one of the oldest surviving congregations in the United States.
- United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, is the burial place of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives.
- Unitarian Memorial Church Very grand church donated by Henry Rogers and located in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford and the Osgood House
- First Parish Church in Bedford
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Weymouth Successor to three Weymouth congregations, the oldest founded in 1836. Built in 1873. Provided the first pulpit for Olympia Brown, the first American ordained woman minister.
- First Parish Church, Scituate, Massachusetts. [3] First Parish, Scituate is over 375 years old. A group of Nonconformists started meeting in London in 1616, led by the Rev. Henry Jacob. He was succeeded by the Rev. John Lothrop, a former rector in the Church of England, in 1624. Discovered worshipping clandestinely in 1632, 42 members of the congregation were arrested and jailed. After two years in jail, Rev. Lothrop was released from jail with the proviso that he leave England forever. With a majority of the members of his congregation, he sailed for New England and arrived in Scituate in September, 1634. A few months later, Rev. Lothrop and about a dozen people gathered together and made a covenant with each other, forming what is now known as the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Scituate. A small log cabin on Meeting House Lane served as the first church. The site is marked today by a monument that lists the early members of the parish, "The Men of Kent," and by gravestones from the 17th century.
New York
- Christ Church (Middletown, New York)
- First Unitarian Church of Rochester was the Unitarian congregation of Susan B. Anthony; the building was designed by Louis Kahn.
- Unitarian Church of All Souls, New York City. Founded in 1819 following an inspiring sermon by William Ellery Channing during a visit there, All Souls is one of the largest and most influential churches in the denomination. Herman Melville and Peter Cooper were members of All Souls, and minister Henry Whitney Bellows led the congregation for 43 years. Forrester Church, author and theologian, served as senior Minister for almost 30 years and was Minister of Public Theology until his death on September 24, 2009.[13]
- Fourth Universalist Society of New York, last surviving Universalist congregation in Manhattan.
- First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn
- First Unitarian Universalist Church of Niagara
- First Universalist Church (Rochester, New York)
- Unitarian Universalist Church (Cortland, New York)
Mixed states
- All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the largest one-church UU congregation.
- First Unitarian Church (Des Moines, Iowa). In 2007, the minister performed the first legal same sex marriage in Iowa.
- First Unitarian Church (Baltimore, Maryland) was founded in 1817 and is the oldest church building specifically built for worship by Unitarians, whereas older UU churches were built and initially used for other Christian denominations. The church gained prominence early in the American Unitarian movement when William Ellery Channing preached the "Baltimore Sermon" in 1819 at the ordination of Jared Sparks. The sermon was then the most published Unitarian tract in the United States and articulated for the first time the idea of Unitarian Christianity.
- First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia was established by Joseph Priestley on June 12, 1796, and is currently the first continuously functioning church in the United States to proclaim itself "Unitarian".
- First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin is one of the largest congregations; its building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Gaia Community is located in Kansas City and is the oldest active Pagan-themed UU congregation. Chartered on May 1, 1998, Gaia Community is not associated with CUUPS.[14]
- First Unitarian Church of St. Louis, located in St. Louis, Missouri was founded in 1835 and is the first Unitarian church west of the Mississippi. William Greenleaf Eliot, the first minister of the church, along with members of his congregation, founded Washington University in St. Louis in 1853, and was its first President.[15]
- Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, site of the 2008 Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting.
- Unitarian Universalist Church in Charleston S.C., established in 1772, is "the oldest Unitarian church in the South".[16]
- Unity Temple Oak Park, Illinois, had its building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham, North Carolina
- First Unitarian Church of Honolulu
- Temple Israel (Lafayette, Indiana)
- Universalist Church of West Hartford
- All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church (Bellville, Ohio)
- Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Alaska)
- Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society (Vermont)
- Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church (Edmonds, Washington)
- Free Congregation of Sauk County, the oldest Freethought-oriented congregation in the United States, located in Sauk City, Wisconsin since 1852 (moved into its current location, formerly known as Park Hall, in 1884).[citation needed]
- Unitarian Church in Summit, in New Jersey
Elsewhere
- Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is a worldwide congregation.
- International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists.
- Cape Town Unitarian Church is the founding site for Unitarianism in South Africa. This vibrant, welcoming congregation was started in 1867 by Rev. Dawid Faure.
See also
- List of Anglican churches
- List of Baptist churches
- List of Congregational churches
- List of Lutheran churches
- List of Methodist churches
- List of Presbyterian churches
- List of Catholic churches
- List of synagogues
References
- ^ Hether M. Watts (1996). Universalism in Nova Scotia. Unitarian Universalist Church of Halifax. p. 9.
The first Universalist sermon was preached by Dr. Trulon in the Dartmouth Schoolhouse in December of 1837.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Joycelyn Loeffelholz-Rea (1998). Looking forword at the past! : a History of the Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa. LEGAS. p. 211.
February 25: The first formal meeting of the executive committee held in Room 18, Senate Building, the office of George C. Holland.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Rex, John (March 2001). "Khasi Unitarians of India". Quest. Church of the Larger Fellowship. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
roughly 9,000 Khasi tribal people ...identify themselves as Unitarians
- ^ "Unitarian Church North East India" (blog). Indian Council of Unitarian Churches. September 23, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
ICUC also publishes its quarterly Newsletter in English called ICUC Bulletin
- ^ Shercliff WH Manchester: A Short History of its Development, Municipal Information Bureau, Town Hall, Manchester (1960)
- ^ Historic England. "Chowbent Unitarian Chapel (1068472)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|separator=ignored (help) - ^ Beaumont, Victor (2011-09-08). "Breakthrough Congregation: Pacific Unitarian Church". UUA. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ "THROOP Unitarian Universalist Church". Lafn.org. 2009-03-25. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Dana Mclean Greeley: The first Unitarian Universalist president". Notable American Unitarians. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "First Parish Duxbury UU Church Home Page". Duxburyuu.org. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ "All Souls Web Site". Allsoulsnyc.org. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "Gaia Community website". Gaiacommunity.org. 2011-08-21. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
- ^ "First Unitarian Church of St. Louis website".
- ^ "Unitarian Church". Cr.nps.gov. Retrieved 2011-09-27.