List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches

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This is a list of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches. Various congregations (churches, societies, fellowships, etc.) and/or individual churches as buildings, of these related religious groups have historic or other significance.

Numerous Unitarian churches are notable for having historic buildings, and there are former church buildings that are historic, too. There are numerous Unitarian churches that are listed buildings in England, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, or that are noted on other historic registers.

This article includes churches notable either as congregations or as buildings or as both.

Canada

This is a list intended to cover notable Canadian Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches as either congregations or as buildings or as both. UU congregations in Canada are members of the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC). The CUC is made up of 46 member congregations and emerging groups.

India

Indian Council of Unitarian Churches —ICUU

Khasi Unitarian Union: 9,000 members

The Unitarian Christian Church of Chennai

Menad Street, Purusa Walkam

No. 12, Thousand Lights, Azizmulk, 4th Street, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Philippines

The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines, Inc. Status: Full Member Members: 2000 Ministers: 34 Founded: The Universalist Church of the Philippines was started in 1954 by Rev. Toribio S. Quimada (d. 1988; martyred). In 1954, the Church was affiliated with the Universalist Church of America. In 1988, UUCP was admitted as a member congregation of the UUA. In 1995, UUCP was one of the founding churches of the ICUU. Congregations: 30

Romania

The Unitarian Church of Transylvania includes a number of individual churches, several with notable historic murals.

South Africa

The Unitarian Community of Cape Town is the founding site for Unitarianism in South Africa, started in 1867 by Rev. Dawid Faure. It is a welcoming congregation.

United Kingdom

The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches counts about 180 churches as members. The following have articles on Wikipedia:

Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel, West Sussex (1754)

Brighton Unitarian Church, 1820, built by Amon Henry Wilds

Chowbent Chapel, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. Building dates from 1721. Building designated a Grade II* Listed building in 1966.

Cross Street Chapel, Manchester. The Dissenters' Meeting House was opened in 1694 and holds a special place in the growth of nonconformism within the city. It became a Unitarian meeting-house c.1761. It was wrecked by a Jacobite mob in 1715, rebuilt and destroyed during a World War II air raid in December 1940. A new building was constructed in 1959 and the present structure dates from 1997

Ditchling Unitarian Chapel, East Sussex (c. 1730)

Essex Church, the first Unitarian church in England, moved in 1880s from central London to Kensington

Horsham Unitarian Church, West Sussex (1719)

Newington Green Unitarian Church, north London

Octagon Chapel, Norwich

Richmond & Putney Unitarian Church, Richmond, London, dating from 1896

Rivington Unitarian Chapel, near Manchester

Todmorden Unitarian Church, in Yorkshire

Underbank Chapel, in Sheffield

Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool

Upper Chapel, in Sheffield

United States

This is a list intended to cover notable churches, including many that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

(by state then city)

Worldwide

Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is a worldwide congregation.

International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists.

References

List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches Wikipedia

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