First Baptist Church is one of the country’s oldest, continuously active Black congregations. Free and enslaved African Americans founded a non-denominational congregation in 1776, becoming a Baptist congregation five years later.
First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, is one of the earliest examples of Midcentury Modern religious architecture in the United States and one of Eliel Saarinen’s most significant works.
First Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was founded as one of the first four churches in the Christian Reformed Church of North America denomination.