Federal-Street Meeting-house (Boston, Mass.)
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- Its A memorial of the Federal-Street Meeting-house, 1860.
- MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Federal-Street Meeting-house (Boston, Mass.); usage: Federal-Street Meeting-house; Church in Federal-Street; Federal-Street Meetinghouse; Church of Christ, in Federal-Street; variant: Federal Street Church; note: established 1729 as Presbyterian church; changed to Congregational church and later to Unitarian church; 12/11/1861 church moved to Arlington Street and name changed to Arlington Street Church)
- A sermon, delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett as colleague pastor of the Church of Christ, in Federal Street, Boston, June 30, 1824, 1824:t.p. (Church of Christ, in Federal Street) p. [33], etc. (Memoir of the Federal Street Church & Society; "the church in Long Lane," begun in 1729 on the corner of Berry Street and Long Lane, changed its name to the Church of Christ, in Federal Street when "Federal Street was substituted for Long Lane by the authorities of the town" to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution which took place in the church by the Convention of Mass. in 1788)
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The Federal Street Church (established 1729) was a congregational Unitarian church in Boston, Massachusetts. Organized in 1727, the originally Presbyterian congregation changed in 1786 to "Congregationalism", then adopted the liberal theology of its fifth senior minister, William Ellery Channing, (1780–1842). For most of the 18th century the church was known as the Long Lane Meeting-House. In 1788, state leaders met in the relatively spacious building to determine Massachusetts' ratification of the United States Constitution. Thereafter the church renamed itself the Federal Street Church in honor of the event. In 1803, it called Channing as its minister who defined "Unitarian Christianity" and launched the Unitarian movement, making the Federal Street Church one of the first to define itself as Unitarian.
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