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Place Category: Museum - SecularPlace Tags: Church of England First Parish Church Meetinghouse Pilgrim
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The Pilgrims did not seek to build fancy houses of worship like those of the Church of England that they left. Rather they met in the fort for collective worship. The church later had its own building at First Parish Church.

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Address: 137 Warren Avenue
Plymouth
Massachusetts
02360
United States

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