At the official opening of the 41st General Congress today, Governor General Lee Sinclair Filson and a representative of the First Parish Church in Plymouth signed an agreement to create a nonprofit to essentially fund, repair, and maintain the church. The nonprofit will be run by a joint committee composed of church members and GSMD members. If the GSMD can raise $3 million by 2020 for an endowment fund they will have full control of the committee; if not, it reverts to the parish. From the pictures below you can tell it was not the first church building in Plymouth, MA, being made of brick and being fairly ornate inside. Other churches built on the site previously burned down, but, services have been held there from 1620. Reenactors portrayed the armed militia.
We actually started off the morning at a different kind of church. The recreated watchtower/armory/meetinghouse/church building at Plimouth Plantation hosted us for a prayer service led by "William Brewster." Upstairs was the watchtower where again, armed men would have patrolled. The old church would have stood on the hill where the more modern church today stands, so the view of Plymouth Harbor would not have been exactly the same.
We actually started off the morning at a different kind of church. The recreated watchtower/armory/meetinghouse/church building at Plimouth Plantation hosted us for a prayer service led by "William Brewster." Upstairs was the watchtower where again, armed men would have patrolled. The old church would have stood on the hill where the more modern church today stands, so the view of Plymouth Harbor would not have been exactly the same.
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