St. Stephen's Church

St. Stephen’s Church long served the North End’s changing ethnic and religious communities. Originally called “New North” to distinguish it from nearby “Old North,” it was founded by “seventeen substantial mechanicks” as a Congregational parish before the Revolution. It was Unitarian when Charles Bulfinch designed the present building in 1804, and 58 years later, when the North End was mostly Irish, it took on a Catholic identity and its new name. It is the only Bulfinch church still standing in Boston.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States