Sacred Spaces in Massachusetts

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.