Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Sept 2010
Old Cambridge Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church at 398 Harvard
Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The congregation was founded in 1844 when several members of First Baptist
Church in Cambridge decided to start a new church. The original meeting house
was sold to the Congregationalists and became North Avenue Congregational
Church. In 1869 the church constructed the current meeting house, a larger
Gothic revival stone building, designed by architect Alexander Rice Esty. Old
Cambridge Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
The church is currently home to various organizations and ministries, such
as the Homeless Empowerment Project which publishes the Spare Change News street
newspaper, the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, the Adbar Ethiopian Women's Alliance,
the Cambridge Child and Family Associates, and others.
Photo 162, Sept 2010