Church of the Disciples is established.

The congregation is organized at 13 – 15 West Street on April 27, 1841. Its purpose is combine progressive Unitarian doctrine with social reform. James Freeman Clarke is the first minister. Early members include Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, John Andrew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The congregation meets initially at Amory Hall on Washington Street and then at Music Hall at 1 Hamilton Place. It moves to a new building (first) on Freeman Place in 1848,* merges with and moves to the Indiana Street Congregational Church (second) on Shawmut Avenue in 1855, moves to a new building (third) at the corner of Warren and West Brookline Streets in 1869,* to another new building (fourth) in the Fenway in 1904,* and merges with the Second Church in Boston in 1941.