Charles Street Meeting House

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The Charles Street Meeting House, at 70 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts is a historic church in Beacon Hill built in 1804 to designs by architect Asher Benjamin.

The meeting house's original congregation was the Third Baptist Church, which used the nearby Charles River for its baptisms. In the years before the American Civil War, it was a stronghold of the anti-slavery movement, and was the site of notable speeches from anti-slavery activists Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. In the 20th century it became a Universalist church, and then was sold for commercial uses.

The Meeting House is part of the Boston Black Heritage Trail.