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.
No. 3868 St. Ann Roman Catholic Church, photograph taken February 14, 2004.
In 1880 Father Fitzpatrick ...
No. 14657 Postcard. Saint Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church, postmarked February 7, 1906.
No. 14658 ...
No. 2186 Saint Brendan's, photograph February, 2003
Saint Brendan's Parish was ...
11609 Saint Christopher's Roman Catholic Church, photograph March 6, 2011
In 1956 St. ...
No. 1305 Postcard. St. Gregory's Church, Dorchester, Mass., circa 1910.
In 1844 a Catholic parish ...
Located at 517 Blue Hill Avenue, near Seaver Street, St. Hugh's Church includes a section of Dorchester ...
St. John's was located in of Roxbury, although some now consider the area to be in Dorchester. Rev. Hugh P. Smyth ...
St. Kevin was established in the 1940s and took over a telephone company building on Columbia Road in Upham's ...
No. 273 Postcard. St. Leo's Church and Rectory, postmarked August 19, 1909.
In 1902 a portion of St. Peter's ...
No. 275 Postcard. St. Margaret's Church, postmarked August 13, 1910.
In 1893, St. Margaret's Parish was set off ...
No. 373 Postcard. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, postmarked May 6, 1908.
Located at 71-73 Columbia Road, ...
No. 6701 The first building used by Saint Mark's Roman Catholic Church, circa 1910.
In 1899 Father ...