page_title: Park Street Church
section_title: Today
hierarchical_section_title: Park Street Church / Today
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of Park Street Church in Boston, United States. Deutsch: Innenansicht der Park Street Church in Boston.
context_page_description: Park Street Church, built in 1809, is an active Conservative Congregational church in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It averages 2,000 in Sunday attendance and has around 1,000 members. It is located at 1 Park Street, at the corner of Tremont Street.
context_section_description: The church still holds to its Statement of Faith adopted by the church in 1877 and readopted in 2003. After 200 years, the church is still engaged in current social issues. For example, Park Street Church  helped launch a private high school in Hyde Park, Boston Trinity Academy, in 2002, to help address the educational needs of inner-city Boston (more than 70% of its students are on scholarship and more than 50% are minorities); it hosts many English as a Second Language classes during the week; it has and supports ministries for the homeless, such as Boston Rescue Mission and Park Street's Starlight Ministry and Thursday Evening Outreach; it partners with crisis pregnancy centers Daybreak Pregnancy Resource Center and A Woman's Concern; it provides English classes for international students and immigrants. There are many affinity groups including ministries for young adults, college students, international students and scholars, children and teens, as well as introductory classes on Christianity and various adult education classes. There is also a ministry called Alive in Christ, an affiliate of Hope for Wholeness.
  Park Street is an international congregation, with members from more than 60 countries. The church attracts many regular worshipers from among the undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at Boston-area universities.  Park Street believes strongly in education integrated with faith, so it is associated with Park Street Kids, Park Street School, and Boston Trinity Academy, as well as partnering with Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for undergraduate and graduate ministries, and a long-time partnership with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
  Boston Mayor Menino announced February 27, 2009, as Park Street Day in honor of its bicentennial.
caption: Church interior, 2007
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