Places of Worship
Dorchester's Religious InstitutionsIn Good Old Dorchester, Orcutt provides a history of the early churches of the town. From 1630 until 1806, the town had only one church, first at Pleasant and Pond Streets and later at Meeting House Hill, The clash between conservative and liberal views at the Second Church resulted in the formation of the Third Church, a Unitarian group in 1813. The nineteenth century saw a great proliferation of churches that has continued to the present.
The following dates may not be official. Sometimes congregations met before becoming formal organizations.
Image: No. 5005 Postcard. Central Congregational Church, circa 1920.
The Central Congregational Church was ...
Image: No. 4150 Postcard. Channing Church, Dorchester, postmarked December 28, 1907.
Now known as Little House, ...
No. 553 Postcard. Chirst Church, Dix St., Dorchester, circa 1910.No. 2485 Third Unitarian Church, Neponset Avenue ...
Image: No. 1926 Christ Community Church of Neponset, photograph January, 2003.
Community Church of Neponset, 51 ...
No. 1313 Postcard. Church of the Holy Spirit, circa 1910.
525 River Street, ...
The Society was organized May 8, 1859.
The church building was erected by the Methodists in 1841. Purchased ...
Image: No. 20195 Civil War Soldiers and Sailors of the Second Church in Dorchester.
Died in Service
Captain ...
No. 21867 35 Intervale Street, former home of Agudath Achim
The congregation’s name means Association of ...
No. 18693 Congregation Adath Jeshurun
Although not technically in Dorchester, many Dorchester ...
No. 2262 Temple Salem of Seventh Day Adventists March 2003
The name of the congregation means Society of Israel ...
21872 179 Glenway Street, former home of congregation (Nusah Hoari) Anshe Levovitch
Found in 1923, the ...
21868 36 Lawrence Avenue, former home of Anshe Shepetovka
The word Shepetovka is the name of a town in ...