Our building is a home and resource for a dynamic group of programs and organizations who partner with us to preserve this historic structure and project our ideals of justice, spirituality, and art into the community of the Boston metropolitan area.

As is often the case with urban churches, Emmanuel Church was built for a large and affluent congregation, which migrated to the suburbs during the mid-twentieth century, leaving a small congregation responsible for a large, historic, and expensive edifice. Emmanuel Church views its building as a resource, not only for itself, but for the larger community of the city of Boston, and has found that by careful management and partnership with a wide variety of programs and institutions we have been able to maintain our historic building while supporting our missions of Social Justice and the Arts.