First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 361 17th Street Southeast in Cedar Rapids, IA 52403. It is one of 166 churches in Cedar Rapids.
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361 17th Street Southeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52403Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (319) 362-1926 · Website: https://fcccr.org
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 106 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Iowa — 2,928 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
Ministries at First Congregational Church
- Children's Ministry
- Youth Group
- Youth Music Program
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Latest from First Congregational UCC's YouTube channel: May 24, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Food Insecurity: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Cedar Rapids city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 984 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Wellington Heights Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Holiness Apostolic Temple — 0.2 mi away
- The Light Of The World Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Risen the Interactive Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory In Grace — 0.5 mi away
- Mission of Hope — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Eden United Church of Christ — 1.8 mi away
- Hope United Church of Christ — 4 mi away in Hiawatha, IA
- United Church of Christ — 16.4 mi away in Central City, IA