First Church Unitarian

First Church in Boston is a Unitarian Universalist Church (originally Congregationalist Church) founded in 1630 by John Winthrop's original Puritan settlement in Boston, Massachusetts. The current building is on 66 Marlborough Street in Boston.

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 Cotton was a teaching elder at the church and helped to establish the foundation of the Congregationalist Church, the official state church of Massachusetts.

In the nineteenth century, the First Church moved to Back Bay in Boston. The building at 66 Marlborough Street in Boston dated from 1867 and was designed by Boston architects William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt. After a fire in 1968, First Church and Second Church merged and built a new building at the same location. This building, by architect Paul Rudolph, incorporates part of the facade of the 1867 building.

July 2001