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Arlington Street Church Review
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Arlington Street Church
- Address: 351 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston, MA | Map It
- Phone: 617/536-7050
- www.ascboston.org
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Back Bay
Fodor's Review:
Opposite the Park Square corner of the Public Garden, this church was erected in 1861 -- the first to be built in the Back Bay. Following suit, many of the old Downtown congregations relocated to the district's newly filled land and applied their considerable resources to building churches. Often designed in Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles, these churches have aged well and blend harmoniously with the residential blocks, making the Back Bay a great neighborhood for ecclesiastical architecture. Though a classical portico is a keynote and its model was London's St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Arlington Street Church is less picturesque and more Georgian in character. Note the Tiffany stained-glass windows. During the year preceding the Civil War, the church was a hotbed of abolitionist fervor. Later, during the Vietnam War, this Unitarian-Universalist congregation became famous as a center of peace activism.
- Open: Call to arrange sanctuary tours. Services Sun. at 11
- Metro: Arlington
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