TheFirst Church of Woburn, formerly theFirst Congregational Church in Woburn, is a historicnondenominational Christian church at 322 Main Street inWoburn, Massachusetts. The congregation, established in 1642, is one of the oldest in the United States, and its church building (the sixth for the congregation) is a local landmark. The Italianate-style church was built in 1860, and its 196-foot (60 m) steeple is believed to be the tallest wooden steeple in North America.[2]The church is home to a historicE. & G. G. Hook pipe organ,[3] dating to the time of the church's construction.[4]
The church building has been listed on theNational Register of Historic Places since 1992.[1] The congregation was originallyPuritan, as were all acknowledged churches inMassachusetts at the time, and was later affiliated with theUnited Church of Christ in the early 20th century until resigning the denomination in the late 1980s. It is now declarednondenominational in theevangelical tradition but did not drop the Congregational designation from its name until 2018.
