The Old South Meeting House resides in the Downtown Crossing are of Boston. During the colonial period this was the largest building and meeting house in Boston. It was here that the Sons of Liberty got their foothold into the community of Boston and New England. It was here that the plans for the Boston Tea Party were organized.
From the tower here, Samuel Adams yelled out the mock Native American war call to signal the beginning of the Tea Party. 5000 people were present for the demonstrations and talks that the Sons of Liberty gave there.
Originally the Old South Meeting House was the church for Boston during the colonial period. Unfortunately the Church was all but destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872, so the congregation built a new church at Copley Square called the “New Old South Church. The Old South Meeting House is operated today as a museum and a monument to freedom.