1823:  First Baptist Church founded in Columbia

1828:  First Presbyterian Church organized

1832:  First Christian Church founded

1833:  First Presbyterian Church builds first church in Columbia

1836-37:  William Jewell and Moses U. Payne create Union Church, first church for Baptists and Methodists

1838:  First Christian Church builds its first church

1838:  Gov. Lilburn Boggs orders Extermination Order, which proclaims Mormons must leave state

1845:  National Methodist Church splits over slavery; Columbia Methodist Church allows slavery

1855:  Bishop Cicero S. Hawks makes first visit to Calvary Parish with the Rev. John W. Dunn and conducts first Episcopal service

1872:  Calvary Parish builds an Episcopal Church

1892-93:  Third First Christian Church is built

1898:  Lutheran students begin holding services at MU

1899:  Episcopal Church builds a Gothic-style stone church to replace its church destroyed by fire in 1898

1922:  The Rev. Albert C. Bernthal becomes first resident pastor of Lutheran students group

1925:  Lutheran congregation officially organized as Trinity Lutheran Church

1930:  Methodists build a church so large it requires national, state and local funding; renamed Missouri United Methodist Church

1943:  Columbia branch of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is organized

1945:  Church Women United organized

1947:  Hillel Foundation established

1948-49: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints builds first church

1949:  Permanent home for Hillel Foundation purchased

1951:  Unitarian Universalist Church is created

1957:  Pastor Norris Niedenthal moves to Columbia to start a Lutheran Church

1958:  75 charter members attend formal organization service of St. Andrew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

1959:  Harry S. Truman dedicates the chapel at Hillel in memory of Eddie Jacobson

1961:  St. Andrew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church holds first service

1966:  The 116-year-old bell of old Presbyterian Church moves to new Presbyterian Church on Hitt Street.

1971:  Danciger Hillel House completed

1976:  Gov. Christopher S. Bond withdraws Extermination Order of 1838

1980:  The Missouri United Methodist Church, Second Baptist Church, Second Christian Church and St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places

1991:  First Christian Church added to the National Register of Historic Places

1994:  The house of Moses U. Payne, co-financer of Union Church, added to the National Register of Historic Places

2005:  Shanti Mandir Hindu temple is built

2007:  60th anniversary of the Hillel Foundation