The year was 1882.

Just before Christmas, seven people met in the parlors of the Sebring House in Bangor to organize a Congregational Society. A call was extended to Rev. Albert Cochran to become pastor. He accepted and preached his first service on January 7, 1883 at McMillan’s Hall in Bangor.

The 14 people who originally signed the Articles of Association of the First Congregational Church of Bangor met on January 24, 1883 to ballot for the officers of the church and to report the first Constitution, Articles of Faith, and Covenant. Just two years later, the 26-member congregation agreed to build their church home on a new purchased lot, formerly known as the Bates Property. 

Our forebears first met in their new sanctuary for regular services on February 6, 1886. By 1925, 143 church members were gathering under the high steeple for worship each Sunday. Today, that same historic steeple still reaches toward Heaven—our “Rock at Four Corners” in the heart of Bangor.

Our tradition is as old as the Mayflower, and is grounded in the principle that each and every one of us has a unique relationship with the Lord.

We believe in the Bible as the central source and light of our faith, and seek to understand it better through study, contemplation and prayer.