First Church Tours
Our 2025 tour season has ended!
Tours are a fun and important fundraiser for our church and we greatly appreciate the support of every volunteer and visitor.
In 2024, we welcomed about 725 people for tours. With expanded hours in 2025, we had almost 2,000 visitors!
Organized in 1629, The First Church in Salem is one of the oldest churches in North America, and one of two churches involved in the infamous Witch Trials. Find out the real stories of Rebecca Nurse and Giles Corey, two of our church members who lost their lives in the hysteria, as well as one of our ministers, who uttered some disturbing words at an execution.
But we are not only about the Trials. We have nearly 400 years of history within our walls, and you will learn about our connection with the famous game "Monopoly,” and why our stained glass windows are a claim to fame; you can sit where Nathaniel Hawthorne sat in our meetinghouse, examine artifacts, and get access to areas of our building that are not normally open to the public. Take a photo with the actual remains of the original church building from 1629; one of Salem's most intriguing artifacts.
There is no other tour like this in the city: authentic, accurate, and fascinating (and a little creepy!)
You can read more on the History Pages of our website.
Visit us on Sunday morning, or during another upcoming event.
We were excited to be a host site this year for Trails and Sails!
We hope to participate again next year, and to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program.