Where is First Church in Salem located?

First Church in Salem is at 316 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970.

What time are services at First Church in Salem?

First Church in Salem meets Sunday at 10:30am (Services Worship Services are held). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Church in Salem?

First Church in Salem in Salem, MA is a Unitarian Universalist church.

First Church in Salem

First Church in Salem is a Unitarian Universalist church at 316 Essex Street in Salem, MA 01970. It is one of 21 churches in Salem.

We espouse and work to live the values of freedom, reason, interdependence, equity, justice, transformation, pluralism, and generosity as pathways to honoring love as our central tenet.

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316 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970

Service times

Sunday 10:30am · Services Worship Services are held

Phone: (978) 744-1551 · Website: https://www.firstchurchinsalem.org/

First Church in Salem is part of the Unitarian Universalist family of churches in The American Church Story. 20 congregations of the Unitarian Universalist family gather across Massachusetts — 98 across the United States on The Church Map.

Unitarian Universalism came from two Christian families — the Unitarians and the Universalists — that consolidated in 1961, and it asks no creed of its members today. Congregations range from those still reading the Christian Scriptures on a Sunday morning to those drawing on many traditions or none. It appears on this map because of where it came from, which is not a claim about where it now stands.

Ministries at First Church in Salem

Children and Youth Programming

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The community around First Church in Salem

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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: 31.7%
Depression: 23.9%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Salem city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 4,041 residents.

Churches near First Church in Salem

Salem Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Crombie Street United Church — 0.1 mi away
Tabernacle Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
First Universalist Society of Salem — 0.3 mi away
The Salvation Army North Shore Community Center & Church — 0.3 mi away
The Breach Salem Church — 0.3 mi away
St. Peter's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
St. John Paul II of Divine Mercy Shrine — 0.3 mi away

More Unitarian Universalist churches nearby

First Parish Church in Beverly — 2.2 mi away in Beverly, MA

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