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The Hartford congregation was founded as a Reformed congregation in 1636 with Thomas Hooker serving as the first pastor. [3] The members of the congregation had previously migrated from England to Massachusetts and spent four years there before leaving Massachusetts after a dispute with the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
First Congregational Church in Guilford Historic Town Center, Guilford, Connecticut. The church was founded in 1643, just a few years after the first settlement of Guilford in 1639. [ 1 ] At that time, under the theocratic structure of the New Haven Colony , the town of Guilford and its church were essentially the same entity. [ 1 ]
The Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ is a historic church at 217 Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1820 as the African Ecclesiastical Society , the congregation has been a major part of African-American society in the city since then.
The former United Congregational Church on Park Avenue at State Street. United Congregational Church of Bridgeport – a congregation of the United Church of Christ – was gathered in 1695 by the English settlers who settled along the Pequonock (now Housatonic) River, in the area known then as Strat-field – because it was located between Fairfield and Stratford.
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
The Congregational Church of Plainville stands on the south side of West Main Street (Connecticut Route 372) at its junction with Church Street.The main church building is a single-story timber frame structure, covered with a steeply pitched gable roof. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, with wooden pseudo-buttresses at the corners ...
At the start of the 19th century, Congregationalism remained the established church of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This meant that Congregational churches were financially supported through taxation. In 1818, however, Connecticut's new state constitution required disestablishment. New Hampshire followed a year later with the ...
First Congregational Church has been a rock in the town of East Hartford, as it is the site of many blood drives for the American Red Cross, home of an East Hartford YMCA First Church child care center serving children ages 3 – 5 years during the weekdays, and, until 2008, was the interim meeting place of Esperanza Nueva Iglesia (New Hope ...