First Church in Charlestown

First Church in Charlestown - now called Christ Church Charlestown - was founded in 1632 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Known in the seventeenth century as the Church of Christ at Charlestown, it is one of the six original churches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the United States. While the church was historically Congregational, it is now part of the Southern Baptist Convention, holding to a conservative view of the Bible and a traditional Reformed view of theology. It is the last church to be pastored by John Harvard, the first benefactor to and namesake of Harvard University.