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The French Congregational Church, known since 1919 as the First Spiritualist Church, is a historic High Victorian Gothic church on Union Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. The pressed brick church was built in 1887, under the sponsorship of Daniel B. Wesson, to provide a place of worship for French Huguenots employed by Smith & Wesson.
First Universalist Society of Salem website Archived 2010-01-04 at the Wayback Machine; A semi-centennial address delivered in the Universalist Church, Salem, Mass., Thursday, August 4, 1859 by Lemuel Willis (Register Press, 1859) The historical records of the First Universalist Church in Salem are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at ...
In December 1851, the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society held their annual general meeting at the church. [5] For twelve years, Charles Wentworth Upham was minister of the church. [6] Grace Parker commissioned a stained-glass window for the church in dedication to her late husband, George Swinnerton Parker of Parker Brothers fame, and their two ...
As a part of the spiritual church movement, the Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ syncretizes certain tenets of Christian Science, Pentecostalism, and Methodism. [4]: 144 The MSCC also teaches the foursquare gospel and some of its churches use Catholic iconography and statues, though ritual items and belief systems vary through each congregation; once, the denomination officially ...
A spiritualist church is a church affiliated with the informal spiritualist movement which began in the United States in the 1840s. Spiritualist churches exist around the world, but are most common in English-speaking countries, while in Latin America, Central America, Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, where a form of spiritualism called spiritism is more popular, meetings are held in ...
Church of Two Worlds in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The NSAC has two educational auxiliaries, the Morris Pratt Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and The Center for Spiritualist Studies (CSS) in Lily Dale, New York. Morris Pratt Institute was built in 1888 of a value assessed at $30,000 at that time. It was 48' wide and 85' long and contained ...
Skelton and his family arrived in Salem on June 23, 1629. Skelton had been ordained in England, and had served for many years as a priest of the established Church of England in Lincolnshire. The new church in Salem was organized as one of the established English churches, and continued in that capacity until January 1, 1630.
Map of Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692. Rev. Dudley Leavitt (1720–1762) was a Congregational minister born in New Hampshire, educated at Harvard College, who led a splinter group from the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, during a wave of religious ferment nearly a decade before the Great Awakening.