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List of Houses of Worship

The History of the First Places of Worship in Waterbury

• 1691
  • An unknown-named Congregational Church
    • This church was also known as The First Church
      • It is believed that this church was also known as The First Congregational Church of Waterbury
    • This is believed to have been the first and only church in Waterbury until around 1740
• Circa 1740
  • An Unknown Congregational Church
  •  The Church of England
  • The "Separates" [near-exclusively in the section of Columbia (not the Columbia neighborhood) which later became the Town of Prospect
• 1790 (in addition to the afore-mentioned churches)
  • An unknown-named Methodist church
• 1803 (in addition to the afore-mentioned churches)
  • An unknown-named Baptist church
• 1825
  
  • First Ecclesiastical Society Congregational Church
    • located at "the east end of the Green"
  • The First Church
    • later to be known as The Old First Church
      • located on Phoenix Alley - today's Phoenix Avenue
• 1834 (in addition to the afore-mentioned churches)
  • An unknown-named Catholic church
• 1837
  
  • There were at least 3 churches on or immediately near what is now South Main Street, and all were in close proximity to each other
    • Saint John's Church
    • a Baptist Church, estimated to be on or near the corner of what is now Bank Street
    • a Congregational Church
      • this is believed to later become "Gothic Hall", still later to become the Second Congregational Church, and eventually the Church of the Immaculate Conception which is today the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
      • Gothic Hall was later located on or near the intersection of East Main Street and Phoenix Alley - which is now known as Phoenix Avenue - which was the site of the Old First Church of Waterbury
• Circa 1843
  
  • The First Church
• Circa 1846
  • A Methodist church
    • estimated to have been converted from a personal residence on Sheffield Street
• Circa 1849
  
  • Saint Paul's Chapel
  • The Waterbury Methodist Church
• 1847
  
  • Saint John's Church
• Circa 1853
  
  • Another Methodist church was built
  • Another Congregational church was built
• 1870 (in addition to the afore-mentioned churches)
  • An unknown-named Universalist church)
    • There were at least 22 churches in Waterbury at this time
• Circa 1891
  
  • An unknown-named Protestant church
• 1894 (in addition to the afore-mentioned churches)
  • Roman Catholocism became the highest populus religion in Waterbury, with an estimated 18,000 parishioners
• Prior to 1900 (in addition to the afore-mentioned churches)
  • ​An unknown-named Protestant church
  • An unknown-named Episcopal church
  • A unknown-named German Lutheran church
  • An unknown-named Swedish church
  • An unknown-named Adventist church
  • An unknown-named African Methodist Episcopal Zion church