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.
21872 114 Southern Avenue, former home of Tikvas Israel
The congregation was founded by Jews in the Franklin ...
Image: No. 203 Postcard. Dorchester, Baptist Temple, postmarked January 2, 1909.
Located at the corner of ...
No. 203 Postcard: Dorchester, Baptist Temple, Dorchester, postmarked 1909
Report prepared in ...
No. 15213 Commemorative plate with illustration of the Church of the ...
No. 9047 Fist Baptist Church on Chickatawbut Street, 19th century.
No. 1924 First Baptist Church at ...
No. 504 Postcard. first Parish Church, Meeting House Hill, Dorchester. circa 1910.
The ...
Postcard. Caption on front: First Parish Church, Meeting House Hill, Dorchester. Postally unused. On verso: No. ...
No. 654 Photograph published in The History of the Fist Methodist Church, Dorchester, showing the appearance of ...
No. 3755 Digital photograph, January 19, 2004. The building is located on Norfolk Street near Babson
No. 1707 Greenwood Memorial Methodist Church, photograph February, 2002.
The ...
No. 1708 Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church, Photograph February, ...
No. 7817 Grove Hall Universalist Church from American Arhitect and Building News, June 20, 1894.
The ...