Arlington Street Church (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1927-1980.

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Arlington Street Church (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1927-1980.

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Abstract

Mixed files of correspondence and collected resources on social and religious movements kept by the Arlington Street Church, a Unitarian Universalist church founded in 1729 by Irish immigrants who used a presbyterian form of church government. In 1786 it adopted a congregational polity.

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8.75 cubic ft. (25 boxes)

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Andover-Harvard Theological Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6382958

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