Circular Congregational Church – Charleston, South Carolina

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Circular Congregational Church – Overview

The Independent or Circular Congregational Church – or White Meeting House as it was originally called – was founded around 1681 by a group of Charleston's earliest colonists.

The group was a mixture of Protestant dissenters that included English Congregationalists, French Huguenots, and Scottish Presbyterians.

The road leading to their meeting house was first known as Meeting House Street and is now known simply as Meeting Street. The cemetery is the oldest in the city.

In 1804 the renowned architect Robert Mills designed a circular building made of bricks to replace the old meeting house. That building was destroyed by a fire at the beginning of the Civil War, but in 1890 the bricks from the ruins were used to create the present building.

Circular Congregational Church – History, Pictures

Circular Congregational Church - official website
Brief history, picture - click image to enlarge
History of buildings, graveyard
Photographs of church, 1978 - Library of Congress
Photograph of Lance Hall, 1938 - Library of Congress - parish house
Photographs of Lance Hall, 1978 - Library of Congress - parish house
Photograph of Circular Church, St Philip's Church, Secession Hall, 1865 - Library of Congress - shows damage from Civil War
Photograph of graveyard, 1865 - Library of Congress
Photograph of graveyard, 1865 - Library of Congress
Photograph of graveyard, 2007

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