Second Building
(prototype)
First Church
Boston
1640
![Shipbuilding](images/Shipbuilding.jpg)
Constructed in the style
of an inverted ship
!['Old Ship Church' in Hingham](images/oldshipchurch.jpg)
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.