University Christian Church

Specialties

Disciples of Christ

History

Established in 1932.

Texas Christian University gave birth to a «university church» when the school was founded in 1873 in a community forty miles southwest of Fort Worth known as Thorp Spring. In 1895, the school and its church moved to Waco, but a devastating fire destroyed this campus in 1910. An invitation to relocate to Fort Worth was extended and accepted, and the university and church moved to their present location on «the hill» in 1911. TCU and University Christian Church continued to operate together until funds were finally secured to build a separate «church house» for the congregation, and on March 5, 1933 the cornerstone of University Christian Church was laid. Worship services were first held in the new but unfinished building in May, 1933. This «university church,» where «town and gown» worshipped together, experienced continued growth through the years and has now become one of the largest and most visible congregations of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).