Country United States Built 1851 | Website ctkcambridge.org | |
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Location Cambridge, Massachusetts Denomination Presbyterian Church in America Location Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
Christ The King Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) church, founded in 1995. It occupies the historic building of the former Prospect Congregational Church, located at 99 Prospect Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Central Square.
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History
The historic church building was designed by Alexander Rice Esty and was constructed in 1851 for the First Evangelical Congregational Church in Cambridgeport (Prospect Congregational), a Reformed congregation gathered in 1827 by members of Lyman Beecher's Hanover Street Church in Boston. Beecher and William Augustus Stearns gave the dedicatory sermons in 1852. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1985 the original congregation merged with another UCC congregation to become North Prospect Union Church in Medford and the building stood vacant. In 1995 Christ the King Presbyterian Church (CTK), a Reformed congregation founded the previous year as a church plant, purchased the dormant church building.
Today
The congregation currently worships weekly at 10:00 on Sunday mornings and also offers a Brazilian Portuguese/English service at noon. The church offers youth and adult education Sunday school classes and has ministries for the arts, music, women, men, local community groups, and international missions. The head pastor is Rick Downs. Christ the King is part of a network of city churches connected through Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York, and CTK is home to a Church Planting Center working to plant other churches in the surrounding region of New England. Recent church plants include congregations in Dorchester (2008), Newton (2010), Hanover (2011), Roslindale, Jamaica Plain/Roxbury and Somerville. The Newton congregation meets at St. Mary's Episcopal Church on Sunday evenings.