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All are welcome to worship at this wonderful old Church located at 415 Washington St in central Interlachen. For more information call: 386 684 9545 or 684 4885

Service:    Sunday at 11AM and Wednesday 6PM

The     Congregational Church was brought to America by the Mayflower passengers.  They went by several names:  Pilgrims for they were religious travelers, Puritans for they wanted to make their church better and Congregationalists for they believed that the will of God could be found in the collective conscious of the congregation.

          The Interlachen Congregationalists are the direct descendants of those pilgrims and take pride in their long history of religious freedom.

The First Congregational Church of Interlachen was the first church in Interlachen.  Mr. George Hastings planned and helped finance the building of Interlachen's first church. It began on February 6th 1884, with the Rectory coming later, across the street from his house on Tropic and Washington Streets.  He enjoined the early settlers from the Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopal faiths to join together under the Congregational denomination. They met in the Hastings home with Professor Woodbury from the Congregational Church Ministries, with each person pledging no less than $400 to building a church on land donated by Hastings.