| First Congregational Church | |
| Location: | 105 Courtland St., NE, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Coordinates: | 33.7575°N -84.3836°W |
| Builder: | Robert E. Pharrow |
| Architect: | Alexander Campbell Bruce, Arthur Greene Everett |
| Architecture: | Renaissance |
| Added: | January 19, 1979 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Refnum: | 79000720 |
| Designated Other1 Name: | Atlanta Landmark Building |
| Designated Other1 Date: | October 23, 1989 |
| Designated Other1 Abbr: | ALB |
| Designated Other1 Link: | List of historic buildings and districts designated by the City of Atlanta |
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First Congregational Church (First Church; United Church of Christ) is a United Church of Christ church located in downtown Atlanta at the corner of Courtland Street and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue (formerly Houston Street).The church has had many prominent members over the years including Alonzo Herndon and Andrew Young. First Congregational Church welcomes people from all racial and economic backgrounds and has a prominent music ministry. The current senior minister, Dr. Reverend Dwight Andrews, is also a professor of music at Emory University.
The church is the second-oldest African-American Congregational Church in the United States. The American Missionary Association (AMA) established the Storrs School in Atlanta. The school served as a center for social services, education, and worship for newly freed blacks. Worshipers at the school's services petitioned for a church of their own. As a result, in May 1867 a Congregational Church was organized,[1] and the AMA donated the land. The church's first service was held on May 26, 1867, and its first ten members included Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Ayer and Atlanta University's first president Edmund Asa Ware.
The church was never formally segregated but had become mostly black by 1892. The current building is the second church, built on the site of the original one in 1908.[2]