1814 map showing the location of the Federal Street Church, led by William Ellery Channing. The building was eventually abandoned because of the neighborhood’s density and the congregation moved to the Arlington Street Church (built 1861), below, often called “the Unitarian Vatican.’’
“The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.”
— William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), Boston-based Unitarian minister and theologian
