Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
Architects: Edward A. Kent
Erected: 1904
Our congregation meets in the heart of the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Our beautiful building is almost as amazing as our choir, and our building is filled with over a hundred children and 300 adults on most Sundays. Services begin at 11:00 (or at 10:00 during July and August), and visitors are welcome to all our Sunday Services.
Our Congregation was originally a Universalist church and a Unitarian church, and the two merged into the present congregation with its long name in 1953.
Our sanctuary's style, "English Country Gothic," is much like the buildings the Plymouth Pilgrims worshiped in before they had to flee religious oppression in England (the congregation of the Pilgrims became Unitarian in 1801 and this congregation was founded by descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims).
Our sanctuary and building was completed in 1906. The land was donated by John A. Albright. In 1908, Col. Charles Clifton paid the remaining twenty-five thousand dollars of the mortgage on the church building on the condition that the pews would be forever free (in the 19th Century we paid our bills through "pew rentals." Today we receive free-will contributions, usually pledged in advance by members and supporters of our church).
Info from:
www.uubuffalo.org
Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
695 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14209
(716) 885-2136
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