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A Christian Science Reading Room is a facility operated as a public service by a Christian Science church in the community where that church exists. The local branches of The Mother Church ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist ) in Boston , Massachusetts, maintain these rooms as a place where one may study and contemplate the Bible and ...
A Christian Science reading room opened in 1939 in a converted house [211] [215] and was registered for worship in 1940. [216] It was replaced by a Sunday School building in 1951 and then by a purpose-built church in 1960. [211] [215] It closed in September 2010 and was demolished in 2015 (although its registration was not formally cancelled ...
Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist is a historic Classical Revival-style Christian Science church building located at 9 East 43rd Street near Madison Avenue and Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, New York City.
There are several first-hand accounts of Einstein visiting Christian Science churches and reading rooms in New York City and New Jersey in the 1950s. In his biography of Einstein, Walter Isaacson notes that Hans Albert, Einstein's son, became a Christian Scientist. [168] [169]
The former Second Church of Christ, Scientist is a historic Christian Science church building located at Central Park West and West 68th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, within the Central Park West Historic District. [1] The Beaux-Arts building was designed by architect Frederick R. Comstock and constructed in 1899 ...
In 2004 the building was sold to the Crenshaw Christian Center and the Christian Science congregation merged with the congregation of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist. [4] [10] [5] In June 2014, after almost ten years in the building, the Crenshaw Christian Center sold the building to 361 Central Park L.L.C. for $26 million.
A Reader in a Christian Science church is a member of the congregation who has been elected to serve in one of two positions responsible for church services. Each week's sermon in Christian Science churches is outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, prepared months in advance, and is the same in all Christian Science churches, worldwide.
Eddy asked Augusta Stetson, a prominent Scientist, to establish a church in New York. By the end of 1886 Christian Science teaching institutes had sprung up around the United States. [175] In December 1887 Eddy moved to a $40,000, 20-room house at 385 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. [176]