The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Five thousand or more colonists gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time.
The Old South Meeting House, 1968
Interior of Old South, 2018
Lt Col Samuel Birch leading the 17th Dragoons in the Old South Meeting House, Boston
The steeple
Congregationalism in the United States
Congregationalism in the United States consists of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition that have a congregational form of church government and trace their origins mainly to Puritan settlers of colonial New England. Congregational churches in other parts of the world are often related to these in the United States due to American missionary activities.
The steeple of North Church, a historic Congregational church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1867)
Recreation of Plymouth's fort and first church meeting house at Plimoth Plantation
The Old Ship Church, a Puritan meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts. The plain style reflects the Calvinist values of the Puritans.
