The Old Ship Church (also known as the Old Ship Meetinghouse) is a Puritan church built in 1681 in Hingham, Massachusetts. It is the only surviving 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse in the United States.

Welcome to First Parish in Hingham, Unitarian Universalist, known as Old Ship Church. We are a liberal Unitarian Universalist community of about 250 members of all ages. Our Meeting House, a National Historic Landmark, has stood on Hingham’s Main Street since 1681.

Apr 5, 2025 · The Old Ship Church in Hingham, Mass., is the oldest continuous Puritan meetinghouse/church in the United States, dating from 1681. Hingham, located about 17 miles southeast of Boston, lies on the southwestern side of Boston Harbor. In 1633 Puritan settlers called it “Bare Cove,” but then incorporated it as the town of Hingham two years later.

First Parish Hingham, better know as Old Ship Church, is a vibrant Unitarian Universalist congregation that dates back to its Puritan roots from 1635. Our home, Old Ship Meeting House, was built in 1681 and is the only remaining Puritan Meeting House from the …

As it can it be seen, the Church has kept within her treasury this analogy of the sea being a “symbol of death” along with the crossing of water (specifically the Jordan River) as “an image of eternal life.”

The ship (bark or barque, barchetta) was an ancient Christian symbol. Imagry comes from Noah's ark, Jesus protecting Peter's boat in a storm on the sea of Galilee, and the ship's mast that forms the sign of a cross.

Old Ship Church, Massachusetts, an early English church. For more than a century after its construction, in 1681, the villagers of Hingham used it for town meetings and gatherings, as well as for religious purposes.

Nov 2, 2010 · The Old Ship Church, located in Hingham, Massachusetts, is the oldest church building in the United States that has been in continuous ecclesiastical use. Built in 1681, the Church is often...

A votive ship, sometimes called a church ship, is a ship model displayed in a church. As a rule, votive ships are constructed and given as gifts to the church by seamen and ship builders. [1] .

May 31, 2014 · The Old Ship Church is one of America’s great religious treasures. Dating from the late 7th century, it is the oldest church in continuous use in the United States, having been used for worship every year for over three hundred and thirty years.