First Congregational Church | |
 First Congregational Church (2012) | |
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| Location | 105 Courtland St., NE,Atlanta,Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′27″N84°23′1″W / 33.75750°N 84.38361°W /33.75750; -84.38361 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1908 (1908) |
| Built by | Robert E. Pharrow |
| Architect | Alexander Campbell Bruce, Arthur Greene Everett |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000720[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 19, 1979 |
| Designated ALB | October 23, 1989 |
First Congregational Church (First Church; United Church of Christ) is aUnited Church of Christ church located indowntown Atlanta at the corner of Courtland Street and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue (formerly Houston Street).The church has had many prominent members over the years includingAlonzo Herndon andAndrew Young. First Congregational Church welcomes people from all racial and economic backgrounds and has a prominent music ministry. The current senior minister, Dr. Reverend Dwight Andrews, is also a professor of music at Emory University.
The church is the second-oldest African-American Congregational Church in the United States. TheAmerican Missionary Association (AMA) established the Storrs School in Atlanta. The school served as a center for social services, education, and worship for newlyfreed blacks. Worshipers at the school's services petitioned for a church of their own. As a result, in May 1867 a Congregational Church was organized,[2] and the AMA donated the land. The church's first service was held on May 26, 1867, and its first ten members included Reverend and Mrs.Frederick Ayer andAtlanta University's first presidentEdmund Asa Ware.[3]: 209
The church was never formallysegregated but had become mostlyblack by 1892. The current building is the second church, built on the site of the original one in 1908.[4]
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