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    Resources at the Congregational Library & Archives

    The Congregational Library holds some 225,000 items, both archival and published, covering Congregational Christian history and a broad array of related topics.

     

    Our rare book section includes an unusually rich and complete representation of English and first-generation Puritan works, including an original copy of the Cambridge Platform of 1649. The Library’s archive of colonial-era church records is also extensive, containing many sets of seventeenth-century documents as well as full collections from large and historically significant modern churches like Boston’s Old South, established in 1669, and Park Street Church, formed in 1809.

     

    The Congregational Library also has a large sermon collection, some 15,000 individual pieces, covering the period from the late 1600s to the twentieth century, in both manuscript and printed form.

     

    As the designated archive of the Congregational Christian churches (up through 1957), the Library holds all the major institutional records of the denomination, as well as some 1500 different periodicals representing its longstanding interest in social reform, missionary work, and education. The Congregational Library also holds rare newspapers from the Christian Connection, a denomination that merged with the Congregational churches in 1931.

    Plan your Visit to the CLA Today!

    Browse the Catalog

    Search the CLA's catalog for books, serials, pamphlets, images, manuscripts, and archival record collections.

    Finding Aids

    Browse the CLA's list of over 350 published finding aids that cover a wide range of the CLA's vast archival holdings.

    The Obituary Database

    Our obituary database provides direct access to biographical and vital information on Congregational Christian ministers and missionaries, dating from the 1600s and continuing to the present day.

    Browse the Image Collection

    Browse the CLA's Image Collection which includes more than 1,300 digitized photographs, prints, and postcards as well as images from books, magazines, and newspapers, all related to Congregational persons, organizations, and buildings.

    Explore the People of Color Finding Aid

    The participation of Black and Indigenous people in early American Congregational churches was both significant and longstanding, as were their contributions to Congregationalism as church members, lay preachers, and ordained ministers. The CLA, in recognition of the scant scholarly attention paid towards these underrepresented populations, is pleased to highlight a number of records relating to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.

    The Beacon Street Diary

    Read about the collection highlights, book reviews, musings about metadata and so much more on the Beacon Street Diary, the official blog of the CLA filled with content produced by our amazing staff.

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    LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

    Congregational Library & Archives

    14 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108

    617-523-0470

    info@14beacon.org
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