St. Mark Church (first) is organized.

Originally the William Lloyd Garrison Memorial Congregational Church, the congregation is formed at a meeting at Berkeley Temple. Peter Stanford is the first minister. The congregation moves to Lenox Street in 1897, Chickering Hall in 1899, 1042 Tremont Street and 528 and 533 Massachusetts Avenue, and finally the former Quaker Fellowship House at 200 Townsend Street in 1926. Rev. Samuel Laviscount serves as minister from 1928 to 1961. The church is taken as part of urban renewal in 1967 and demolished, and the congregation moves temporarily to the Berea Seventh Day Advent Church at the corner of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue, before building a new church (second) on Townsend Street in 1969.*