Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Unitarian Universalist church in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation is a church at 1024 Mount Vernon Highway NW in Sandy Springs, Georgia, on a five-acre wooded lot bought in June 1971. Its building was dedicated in March 1976, and the Chalice House, added in 1987, is a separate structure for the religious education program.
The congregation was founded in 1969 as an outreach of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta in the northwestern suburbs. It grew from the desire to serve people seeking an alternative approach to spiritual exploration.
The congregation welcomes people from all belief systems and backgrounds, creating a space where visitors can participate in discussions and community work. The place functions as a gathering point where members explore their values together without rigid doctrinal expectations.
The congregation holds services on Sunday mornings and provides assistive listening devices along with wheelchair accessibility for attendees. The property is situated on Mount Vernon Highway Northwest with parking available for visitors.
The congregation's second minister, Rev. Bob Karnan, was installed in 1974 at the Abbey, a church-themed restaurant chosen partly for its historic character, since Northwest still had no building of its own. The congregation had voted in May 1970 to raise $30,000 toward buying property, and an earlier lot on Mill Creek Road was dropped when a zoning variance could not be secured.
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