The Historic Meetinghouse Tour

There are two parts to the history of the First Church in Roxbury: the well-known information that can readily be found online, and the true history that the UUUM continues to investigate. That history includes the enslavement of Black- and Indigenous-people by the white parishioners who worshiped here. The First Church in Roxbury is a Boston landmark that has been the home of the UU Urban Ministry since 1976. That was the year that the last congregation that called the church their home disbanded - largely because of "white flight". The UU Urban Ministry is a non-sectarian, non-profit social justice organization that has its offices at this historic building.

Enjoy a revealing and important tour of the Meetinghouse, the First Church in Roxbury, the oldest surviving wood- frame church in Boston. Built in 1832, the fifth building on the site, a historic landmark. During the Revolutionary War, the first church…