JP Church Rings Bell 900 Times For 900,000 Lives Lost To COVID-19

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA — A church in Jamaica Plain commemorated a grim milestone over the weekend.

As the country has passed 900,000 recorded COVID-19 related deaths, congregants of First Church in Jamaica Plain - a Unitarian Universalist church, rang the church bell 900 times in memory of those lost.

The vigil took place Sunday, Feb. 13, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., almost two years to the date when the first COVID-19 case hit Massachusetts.

Onlookers came and went, remembering those lost over the past two years as the bells rang for over an hour and a half.

First Church expects to ring its bells again once the national COVID-19 death toll reaches 1 million, WCVB reported.

The bell tolling at First Church follows the lead of Washington National Cathedral in the nation's capital.