Union United Methodist Church (first) is established.

Originally the African Methodist Church, it meets initially in various rented rooms and then on today’s Joy Street in 1823. The second African-American congregation in Boston, it is formed by members of the Bromfield Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Samuel Snowden is the first minister. The congregation moves to larger quarters as the Revere Street Methodist Episcopal Church in 1835, then, as the Fourth Methodist Episcopal Church, to a former Swedish Baptist Church at 712 Shawmut Avenue in 1911. Struggling to build a new church on Shawmut Avenue, the congregation meets in its unfinished basement in 1928, then buys the former Union Congregational Church and moves to Columbus Avenue in 1949.*