What denomination is First Congregational Church?

First Congregational Church in Montclair, NJ is a United Church Of Christ church.

First Congregational Church

First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church in Montclair, NJ 07042. It is one of 47 churches in Montclair.

Montclair, NJ, 07042

First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 24 congregations of the Congregational family gather across New Jersey — 2,948 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

Food Pantry
Shelter Program
Family Support
Community Service
Prayer Ministry
Community Garden
Hunger Relief

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Latest from First Congregational Church UCC, Park Ridge NJ's YouTube channel: Worship for June 14, 2026 (all videos).

The community around First Congregational Church

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 about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. 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: 31.2%

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

Churches near First Congregational Church

Church Street Plaza — 0.1 mi away
Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
First United Methodist Church of Montclair — 0.2 mi away
The Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
Montclair Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair — 0.2 mi away
Immaculate Conception Church — 0.2 mi away
Petra Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Redeemer Montclair Church — 0.2 mi away

More Congregational churches nearby

Glen Ridge Congregational Church — 1.2 mi away in Glen Ridge, NJ
Saint Paul's Congregational Church — 3.6 mi away in Nutley, NJ

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