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Article: RELIGION TODAY; SHIP SHAPE; Celebration marks 325th anniversary of Hingham's landmark meeting house and church
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
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- July 22, 2006
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The Patriot Ledger
When a building is still in use after 325 years, there's reason to
feel awe and pride. In celebration of this landmark, Old Ship Meeting
House will hold a party and activities during the next six months to
welcome the wider community. Old Ship, built as a church and meeting
house in 1681 and now home to a Unitarian Universalist congregation,
is the oldest wooden building of continuous use in the country and
one of the few surviving meeting house of its period.
"It's really a remarkable place," said the Rev. Kenneth Read-
Brown, pastor for 19 years. "People may not be aware that this quite
amazing building is a landmark right here on the South Shore.
"Whether or not they ...