Second Universalist Church in Boston (first) is dedicated.

(Dec.) It is located in the former School Street Congregational Church at today’s 28 School Street. The congregation was established on December 13, 1816. Hosea Ballou is the first minister. He serves for 35 years and is later called the “Father of Modern Universalism.” The building is enlarged in 1837 and remodeled in 1851. The congregation moves to a new building on Columbus Avenue in 1872,* then to the Church of the Redemption at the corner of Boylston Street and Ipswich Street. It begins to worship with the Arlington Street Church in 1935 and merges with that congregation in 1967.