Where is First Congregational Church located?

First Congregational Church is at 500 Southeast 8th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55414.

What time are services at First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church meets Sunday at 10am (mornings in person Zoom). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Minneapolis, MN is a United Church Of Christ church. It is one of 3 United Church Of Christ congregations in Minneapolis.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 500 Southeast 8th Avenue in Minneapolis, MN 55414. It is one of 454 churches in Minneapolis, and one of 3 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.

500 Southeast 8th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55414

Service times

Sunday 10am · mornings in person Zoom

Phone: (612) 331-3816 · Website: http://firstchurchmn.org/

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 65 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Minnesota — 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.

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Latest from First Congregational Church of MN, UCC's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship Sept 20, 2026 (all videos).

The community around First Congregational Church

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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,600 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: 44.5%
Poverty Rate: 44.5%
Depression: 35.8%
Food Insecurity: 27.0% (18.8–35.2%)
Transportation Barriers: 18.5% (13.6–23.0%)
Housing Insecurity: 17.1% (12.4–21.2%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Minneapolis city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 2,358 residents.

Churches near First Congregational Church

Andrew Riverside Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
Maranatha Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
University Lutheran Chapel LCMS — 0.2 mi away
Cru House — 0.3 mi away
Newman Catholic Campus Ministry — 0.3 mi away
Saint Lawrence Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
Church of Minneapolis — 0.4 mi away
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
University Lutheran Church of Hope — 0.4 mi away
University Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

All Nations Indian Church — 1.8 mi away
Plymouth Congregational Church — 2.3 mi away
SAPUCC - St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ — 2.6 mi away in St Paul, MN
Lyndale United Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away
Olivet Congregational Church — 4 mi away in Saint Paul, MN

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