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Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground
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| Location: | 5 Caroline Ave., Village of Setauket, New York |
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| Area: | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built: | 1812 |
| Architect: | Satterly, William S.; Tooker, Clark |
| Architectural style: | Federal |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 96001023[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 27, 1996 |
Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground, also known as First Presbyterian Church of Brookhaven, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery at 5 Caroline Avenue in the Village of Setauket, Suffolk County, New York. The church was built in 1812 in the Federal style and is a three-by-five-bay, heavy timber framed, 38-by-40-foot (12 by 12 m) building sheathed in wood shingles and covered by a gable roof. The center bay features an 11-by-8-foot (3.4 by 2.4 m) bell tower / narthex. The burial ground was established in the 1660s and contains approximately 800 gravesites.[2] The church grounds were the site of a Loyalist fortification that was attacked by Continental Army forces from Connecticut in August 1777.
The church and burial ground were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]