Second Building

                                (prototype)
               First Church
                     Boston  
                       1640


                   Shipbuilding  

                             Constructed in the style
                                 of an inverted ship






'Old Ship Church' in Hingham





The second building of Boston's First Church was very
similar to the Old Ship Church in Hingham, which is in the
photograph on the left . Old Ship Church was built in 1681,
and is the oldest church building in America in active use.










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