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. 373 Postcard: Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, postmarked, May 6, 1908.
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No. 276 Postcard: St. Mary's Church, Dorchester, circa 1910.
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Image: No. 276 Postcard. St. Mary's Church, circa 1910. This is the church on Cushing Avenue.
The Rev. John P. ...
No. 2188 Saint Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, photograph taken in February, 2003.
The ...
No. 3640 Detail from title page of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church shown in St. Paul's Cook Book (1914?)
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No. 2198 Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church, published in The Gothic Churches of Dorchester (1972)
1 Lingard ...
Image: No. 292 Postcard. Dorchester, MA. St. Peter's Church and Parsonage, postmarked October 6, 1908.
In 1858 ...
No. 1333 Postcard. Saint William's Church, circa 1920.
St. William's became a Parish set off from St. ...
No. 269 Postcard. Second Parish, White Church, Codman Square, Dorchester, Mass. Postarked Aug. 2, ...
21533 Detail from 1858 Walling Map of Norfolk County, showing second Methodist Church
Thomas W. Tucker served a ...
21880 156 Wellington Hill Street, former home to Shaar Tselosa Avraham
This congregaton was founded in 1963. ...
21870 70 Wayland Street, former home of Sons of Abraham
Sons of Abraham was founded by people from Adath ...