First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 1609 University Avenue in Madison, WI 53726. It is one of 203 churches in Madison, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
First Congregational United Church of Christ (FCUCC) in Madison, Wisconsin, seeks to be a radically inclusive and welcoming Christian community, nurturing and affirming God’s creation and dedicated to serving all!
First Congregational UCC is a radically inclusive and welcoming Christian community.
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1609 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53726Service times
Sunday, August 2 | 9:00 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (608) 233-9751 · Website: https://firstcongmadison.org/
First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 129 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Wisconsin — 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
- Prison Ministry
- Restorative Justice
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Latest from First Congregational UCC-Madison's YouTube channel: September 20, 2026 | Sunday Worship | First Congregational UCC–Madison, WI (all videos).
The community around First Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 66.0%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Depression: 32.3%
- Food Insecurity: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Madison city is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 2,880 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
- Madison LDS — 0.1 mi away
- the church in Madison — 0.2 mi away
- Madison Chinese Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Campus Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Geneva Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Crossing — 0.5 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Science Student Organization — 0.5 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Plymouth Congregational UCC — 3.7 mi away
- Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ — 3.9 mi away
- Lake Edge United Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away
- Memorial United Church of Christ — 5.1 mi away in Fitchburg, WI
- Middleton Community United Church of Christ — 7.5 mi away