First Unitarian Church in Westport

The Unitarian Church in Westport, nicknamed the New Ship Church, is a striking church building in Westport, Connecticut designed by modernist architect Victor A. Lundy and completed in 1965. It won an award from Architect magazine. It has been compared to E. Fay Jones' Thorncrown Chapel (1980) and to the wooden tent Lundy designed for the interior of his Unitarian Meeting House (1964) in Hartford, Connecticut. The nickname New Ship Church is a reference to the Old Ship Church built in 1681 in Hingham, Massachusetts. The congregation was founded in 1949 as "The First Unitarian Fellowship of Fairfield County." http://uuwestport.org/