First Congregational Church (also called the Community Congregational Church) is a historic church at 101 Pawnee Avenue in

Manitou Springs, Colorado Manitou Springs is a home rule municipality located at the foot of Pikes Peak in western El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The town was founded for its natural mineral springs. The downtown area continues to be of interest to travelers, ...

. Completed in August 1880, it was the first church built in Manitou Springs and is the oldest continuously operated

Congregational church Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...

. Due to an influx of tourists during the summer, it was enlarged in 1891. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1979. With

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* Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado Gothic Revival church buildings in Colorado Churches completed in 1880 Churches in El Paso County, Colorado Manitou Springs, Colorado National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Colorado 1880 establishments in Colorado Churches in Colorado {{Colorado-church-stub