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{{short description|Historic church in Nebraska, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox NRHP
| name                   = First Unitarian Church of Omaha
| nrhp_type              =
| designated_other1      = Omaha Landmark
| designated_other1_date = February 13, 1979<ref name="OMAL list">{{cite web|title=Omaha Landmarks|publisher=Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission|url=http://www.ci.omaha.ne.us/planning/landmarks/alphabetical-listing|access-date=2013-03-04|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016142957/http://www.ci.omaha.ne.us/planning/landmarks/alphabetical-listing|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| image                  = First Unitarian Church of Omaha from SE.jpg
| caption                = View from south, across Harney Street
| location               = [[Omaha, Nebraska]]
| coordinates            = {{coord|41.2569057792381|-95.95850917892008|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin               = Nebraska#USA
| area                   =
| built                  = 1917<ref name="OMAL list"/>
| architect              = John McDonald, Alan McDonald<ref name="OMAL list"/>
| architecture           = Colonial Revival
| added                  = March 27, 1980
| refnum                 = 80002448<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
}}

The '''First Unitarian Church''' of [[Omaha, Nebraska]] is a [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian Universalist Church]] located at 3114 Harney Street in the [[Midtown Omaha|Midtown]] area.<ref name=churchsite/>

== History ==

First Unitarian Church of Omaha was incorporated on August 22, 1869, by twenty-six men and women. Its regular minister was Reverend Henry E. Bond, and its first chapel was a small brick building located at 17th and Cass that was dedicated in 1871. In the fall of 1889 Reverend Newton M. Mann came to serve the church. Mann was the first American minister to promote [[evolution]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The present [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]] building at 31st and Harney was designed by Omaha architects [[John McDonald (architect)|John McDonald]] and his son Alan McDonald.  Former U.S. president [[William Howard Taft]], who was then president of the Unitarian Church Conference in the United States and Canada, presided at the 1917 cornerstone-laying ceremony.  The building was dedicated in September 1918.<ref name=nomform/>   In the 1930s, [[Joslyn Castle|Sarah Joslyn]] gave the church its [[Aeolian-Skinner]] pipe organ.

==References==
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<ref name=churchsite>[http://www.firstuuomaha.org/ First Unitarian Church of Omaha website.]  Retrieved 2011-10-27.</ref>

<ref name=nomform>Kidd, Daniel.  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111219203755/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/douglas/DO09-First-Unitarian-Ch.pdf "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: First Unitarian Church of Omaha".]}}  {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110307215553/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml Nebraska State Historical Society.]}}  Retrieved 2011-10-25.</ref>

</references>

== External links ==
{{commons category|First Unitarian Church of Omaha}}
* {{Official website|http://www.firstuuomaha.org}}
{{List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches|state=collapsed}}
{{NRHP Omaha}}
{{Omaha Landmark churches}}

[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Omaha, Nebraska]]
[[Category:Churches in Omaha, Nebraska]]
[[Category:19th-century Unitarian Universalist church buildings]]
[[Category:Unitarian Universalist churches in Nebraska]]
[[Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska]]


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