THE OLD NORTH CHURCH

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• Built: 1723
• Boston's oldest church building
• Episcopal church
• Worships Book of Common Prayer

STEEPLE

• 191 feet tall
• Tallest steeple in Boston
• Steeple contains bells...
• First bells ever brought to America
• Destroyed twice by hurricanes

Original

• Weathervane
• Interior high box pews
• Brass chandeliers
• Church's first clock

Church's Basement

• Contains 37 crypts
• Crypts contain remains of
• Former members of the church
• And soldiers from Battle of Bunker Hill

Historical event

• Paul Revere met up with sexton Robert Newman
• To tell him how to signal advancement of British troops
• Newman and John Pulling hung to lanterns
• To let the patriots know that British were coming by boat
• "one if by land, two if by sea"

Historical event cont.

• This fateful event ignited the American Revolution
• And the birth of America

church

• Gives a tour to tourists that takes them
• down into the crypts and up to the steeple
• Each year a half a million visitors make the
• trip to Boston to experience this unique monument to liberty