Mount Vernon Church in Boston, Massachusetts, was a Congregational church located on Beacon Hill and later in Back Bay .HistoryBeacon Hill, 1844 - 1891The Mount Vernon Church was organized on June 1, 1842 and the church building on Ashburton Place in Beacon Hill was completed the next year. Senior ministers to serve the congregation at this location included Edward Norris Kirk (1842-1874); and Samuel Edward Herrick (1871-1904).Congregants included Dwight L. Moody and Daniel Safford. In the 1850s some of the congregation formed the Mount Vernon Association of Young Men.In 1893 after the Tremont Temple burned down, its Baptist congregation held services in the Mt. Vernon Church building, recently vacated by the Mt. Vernon congregation.Back Bay, 1892 - 1977Around 1892 C. Howard Walker designed a new church building in the Back Bay, on the corner of Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue. The new building included stained glass windows made by John LaFarge.Senior Ministers at the Back Bay location included: Samuel E. Herrick (until 1904) Albert Parker Fitch 1905 -1909James E. Richard 1909 - 1918Sidney Lovett 1919-1932Carl Heath Kopf 1933-1948Dwight C. Smith 1949 - 1953Chalmers Coe 1954 - 1956 In 1970, the membership of the Mount Vernon Church closed the church building and entered into a covenant with the Old South Church in Boston to worship in fellowship with the Old South at its church at 645 Boylston St., (Copley Square) Boston, MA 02116. Mount Vernon Church retains separate officers and budget, an overlapping membership with Old South, and separate status as a member church in the Metropolitan Boston Association of the United Church of Christ.
