Meeting House of the Second Parish in Woburn is a historic Congregational church at 12 Lexington Street in Burlington, Massachusetts.
The church building was constructed in 1732. The church served as a parish of Massachusetts' state funded church until the churches were disaffiliated from the state government in the early nineteenth century. The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The congregation is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
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