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.
The Mt. Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church was located on Howard Avenue near Dudley Street. This area of ...
No. 2231 New Testament Pentacostal Church of God in Christ, photograph March, 2003
In ...
Located at the corner of Norfolk and Capen Streets, the Norfolk Unitarian Church was established in 1889. In 1990 ...
No. 278 Postcard. Vasa Lutheran Church. The text on the reverse side says that the building is expected to be ...
No. 3085. Scan of photograph published in the 75th Anniversary Program, ...
No. 2235 Pentecostal House of Prayer, photograph 2003.
Located at 137 Dakota Street, this ...
Image: No. 575 Postcard. Pilgrim Congregational Church, Dorchester, circa 1910.
On November 2, 1862, sixteen ...
Image: No. 10048 Postcard: Pilgrim Church, postmarked November 12, 1913.
Pilgrim Congregational Church, 540-544 ...
No. 2227 Romsey Chapel, published in Services of Dedication & Commemoration ...
No. 2110 Russian Orthodox Church of the Epiphany, photograph by Robert Severy, March 31, 1965.
Located at ...
No. 5559 Postcard. St. Ambrose's Church, circa 1920.
St. Ambrose's parish was created ...
No. 1326 Postcard. Saint Angela's Roman Catholic Church, circa 1920
In the summer of ...