Our Circles

You will find the interlocking circles theme repeated in many places in the architecture and the publications of the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady. The design of the church reflects the values and concerns of the congregation: circles of fellowship and unity. The interlocking circles of the specially designed cement blocks forming both exterior and interior walls suggest common experience, humanity, and church life. Our bi-weekly newsletter is entitled "Circles". Often we explain some of the meaning of our circles by quoting the poem:

Outwitted
--by Edwin Markham

He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!

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