Congregation On the Move ; After 125 Years in Its Current Location, the School Street United Methodist Church Plans a New, Roomier Home.

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In a sense, the congregation of the School Street United Methodist Church is used to moving. The congregation's first meeting house in 1825 was on High Street, according to a 1925 newspaper account of the church's history. That street is now called College Street and runs along the University of Southern Maine's Gorham campus.

Five years later the congregation built a chapel in a different spot on the same street, and 10 years after that built a larger house of worship, also on High Street. Finally, in 1880, the congregation moved to a brand-new church it built on School Street, where it still worships today.

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Congregation On the Move ; After 125 Years in Its Current Location, the School Street United Methodist Church Plans a New, Roomier Home.

In 125 years, however, the congregation has outgrown the building, which lacks a parking lot and has too many stairs for members with disabilities.

Now the congregation plans to move again and ...

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