Editing Littleton, Massachusetts (section)

== Houses of Worship ==
Littleton was, like most small colonial New England towns formed around a congregation of a house of worship. Following the horrific demise of the Praying Indian village of Nashoba, Anglo settlers and immigrants bought land from the surviving members of the Nashoba congregation and built their meetinghouse in 1715 on the site of what is now the First Church Unitarian, at 19 Foster St.{{sfnp|First Church Unitarian}} The First Baptist Church Littleton, at 461 King St, was the second congregation in Littleton built in spring of 1822 because "Prayer meetings on weekdays, itinerant preaching, and all efforts for the conversion of the heathen, were stigmatized as the doings of fanatics." {{sfnp|First Baptist|ps=Of note, from 1831-1834, For the next three years the church was supplied with preaching chiefly by the students of Newton Theological Institution.}} In 1841, more Calvinists following the Congregational doctrine decided that the main congregation had moved too far away from Calvinism but did noit agree with the Baptists split off and built what is now the Congregational Church of Littleton, UCC, at 330 King St.{{sfnp|Littleton UCC}}
Littleton Protestant schurches remained the only ones in town until the twentieth century.
The next creed to establish itself in Littleton was Roman Catholicism driven by the influx of Irish, Italian, Quebecois, Polish, Norwegian, and Portuguese immigrants. The first Mass  offered in Littleton at the Town Hall Christmas Day 1911. Littleton's first Catholic Church was established in 1916, with its patron Saint Anne. At that time, forty Catholic families resided in Littleton.{{sfnp|Blessed Trinity|ps=The land for the building was bought on King Street (interestingly, the building is now the current site of the Tahattawan Masonic Lodge) from Sherman Jewett. With seating for 208, it was finished spring 1916.}} Serving as a mission to St Mary's in Ayer, it became its own parish in 1945. By the late fifties, the congregation had grown larger so they built the present building at 75 King St and relocated there in 1960.
During the Cold War, an increasing number of Mormons moved into the area. With evangelization and this influx, the local Mormon community built the Littleton Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 616 Reat Road in the 1980s.
The town has an ecummenical group, The Greater Littleton Interfaith Council that cooperates on various charity, faith, and relief activities. As well as the resident congregations it works with congregations in surrounding towns. Other religions in Littleton are served by Wat Buddhabhavana (Buddhist) in Westford, Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopalian) in Acton, Congregation Beth Elohim (Judaism) in Acton, Shirdi Sai Temple (Hinduism) in Groton, Islamic Community Center in Acton, Mt Calvary Lutheran Church in Acton, and St Matthews United Methodist Church in Acton.{{sfnp|GLIC}}