Park Street Church, Boston

We started the walk on Freedom Trail in Boston Common from Park Street church.

 

Designed by Peter Banner, the 217 ft. steeple of Park Street Church was once the first landmark travelers saw when approaching Boston. The church was the tallest building in the United States from 1810 to 1846.

 

Celebrating its Bicentennial in 2009, Park Street Church’s lofty architecture reflects an even loftier mission of human rights and social justice.

 

Prison reform began in this church, women’s suffrage was strongly supported here, and some of the first and most impassioned protests against slavery were delivered inside these hallowed walls.

 

Park Street Church became known for supporting Abolitionist causes, hosting an anti-slavery lecture series as early as 1823. As part of the lecture series, a young William Lloyd Garrison delivered his first major public Abolitionist speech on July 4, 1829.

 

Located on the Freedom Trail, the Park Street Church is one of the most historically significant buildings in the story of the Abolition's history of the nation.

 

Source: www.thefreedomtrail.org/

 

September 7, 2012, Freedom Trail, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.

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