Where is First Church Cambridge located?

First Church Cambridge is at 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138.

What time are services at First Church Cambridge?

First Church Cambridge meets Monday at 10am (anytime anywhere Archive Summer Worship). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Church Cambridge?

First Church Cambridge in Cambridge, MA is a United Church Of Christ church.

What events are coming up at First Church Cambridge?

First Church Cambridge has 5 upcoming events on its public calendar, including A Shared Table: Neighboring Churches for Indigenous Justice, Night Song, Morning Glories Women's AA Meeting.

First Church Cambridge

First Church Cambridge is a United Church Of Christ church at 11 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA 02138. It is one of 93 churches in Cambridge.

Wheelchair accessible

11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Service times

Monday 10am · anytime anywhere Archive Summer Worship

Phone: (617) 547-2724 · Website: https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/

First Church Cambridge is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 157 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Church Cambridge

Friday Café
First Church Shelter
Children's Ministry

Find First Church Cambridge on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

Upcoming events at First Church Cambridge

Sun, Sep 20 · 6:30 PM: A Shared Table: Neighboring Churches for Indigenous Justice — Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Massachusetts Ave
Sun, Sep 20 · 7:30 PM: Night Song — Sanctuary
Mon, Sep 21 · 7 AM: Morning Glories Women's AA Meeting — Harter Room
Mon, Sep 21 · 8 AM: Harvard Hillel High Holiday Service — Margaret Jewett Hall
Mon, Sep 21 · 5 PM: Gifts Discernment Committee — Zoom

From First Church Cambridge's public calendar (https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/). Times are the church's local time.

Watch

Latest from First Church in Cambridge's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 | Worship with First Church in Cambridge, UCC (all videos).

The community around First Church Cambridge

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Social Isolation: 35.8%
Depression: 24.9%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Cambridge city is served by 58 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.

Churches near First Church Cambridge

St. John's Chapel — 0.1 mi away
Episcopal Chaplaincy Harvard — 0.1 mi away
Christ Church — 0.1 mi away
First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
Open Table Dinner Church — 0.2 mi away
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Boston Immanuel Community Church — 0.2 mi away
New Testament Language Project — 0.2 mi away
Christian Science Reading Room — 0.2 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

First Congregational Church of Somerville — 1.6 mi away in Somerville, MA
Allston Congregational Church — 1.8 mi away in Boston, MA
Payson Park Church — 2.3 mi away in Belmont, MA
Sanctuary United Church of Christ — 3 mi away in Medford, MA
First Church, Charlestown — 3 mi away in Charlestown, MA

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