First Church on Manhattan Island

1633

The site of the

first church built on

Manhattan Island

Evaradus Bogardus, Dominie

This tablet erected by the

Daughters of Holland Dames

1933

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First Church of Christ, Scientist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was designed by Willis Polk and built in 1905. The plan of the building is a Greek cross; four Ionic columns dominate the entry portico. Since the construction of a new church in 1946, ...

First Church of Christ, Scientist

Bernard Maybeck, Architect, 1910

Roof replacement, accessibility, and seismic improvements: Architectural Resources Group and Degenkolb Engineers, 2007

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated 1975

Maybeck’s masterpiece is an Arts & Craft fusion of Romanesque, early Christian Gothic and Japanese architectural influences. ...

The First Methodist Church in Anderson Was Built Here

—1827–1977— The pioneer Methodist Church of Anderson began meeting in homes in 1821 and was organized as a congregation in 1827. Their first primitive log church was on the southwest corner of 11th and Delaware Streets. In 1849 a new ...

First Baptist Church

of League City

First Baptist church on Galveston County mainland; organized in Clear Creek Schoolhouse, Dec. 4, 1887. B. A. Smalley served as clerk. First permanent pastor was the Rev. D. T. McLeod, Oct. 1895. First building erected on this ...

The First Baptist Church

Founded by

Roger Williams

A.D. 1638

The oldest

Baptist Church

in America

The oldest church in this state

This meeting house erected

A.D. 1773

Marker is on North Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

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First Baptist Church, Columbia MS

In 1883, Pastor T.S. Howell from Bunker Hill Church in rural Marion County, and six local believers met at the courthouse to organize a Baptist church within the city limits of Columbia. Early meetings were held in the courthouse, the ...

First Unitarian Church

This building, designed by George W. Page in 1891, became the permanent home of a congregation that first met in City Hall in 1866. A version of Richardsonian Romanesque style, the innovative structure withstood the earthquake of 1906 and became ...

First Baptist Church

Manakin

Organized as Dover Mines Church about 1863, First Baptist Church, Manakin is one of the oldest African American churches in Goochland County. Its members separated from Dover Baptist Church. Initially conducting their services at different sites, the Dover Mines ...

First Baptist Church Convention

On this site May 8, 1845

The Southern Baptist Convention

was organized

by 327 delegates from the states of

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisana, Kentucky and District of Columbia.

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The following officers were elected:

Rev. ...