Built 1841 Designated CP September 27, 1985 Area 1,214 m² Phone +1 781-652-9859 Architect Thomas Silloway | NRHP Reference # 83000805 Opened 1841 Architectural style Romanesque architecture Added to NRHP 23 June 1983 | |
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Location Arlington, Massachusetts Part of Arlington Center Historic District (#85002691) Address 735 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02476, USA Similar Spy Pond, Jefferson Cutter House, Calvary Methodist Church, Park Street Church, Six Flags New England Profiles | ||
Highrock Church (the meeting house was formerly known as the Saint Athanasius Greek Orthodox Church) is a historic church meeting house at 735 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts, that is currently home to an Evangelical Covenant Church congregation.
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Building history
The church building was constructed in 1841 for a Universalist congregation that had broken off from First Parish Congregational Church when it espoused a Unitarian doctrine. In 1961, the two congregations reunited in a building across the street. In 1964, Saint Athasius Greek Orthodox Church purchased the building from the Universalists and made the site its home until 2004. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2006, Highrock Church, a congregation founded in 1999, purchased the building from the Greek Orthodox Church congregation when it moved to another larger structure (the former site of St. James Roman Catholic Church in Arlington).
Congregation
The congregation was established in 1999 in Needham, Massachusetts, adopting the name "Highrock" from the street on which they met. The joined the Evangelical Covenant Church in 2003, and in 2006 purchased the former Greek Orthodox church building in Arlington. In 2008, Highrock launched its first church plant in greater Boston: Highrock Brookline. In the summer of 2012, Highrock launched two new church plants in Quincy and Salem.