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The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science. The church was founded "to commemorate the word and works of Christ Jesus " and "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing ".
Otherwise the first Christian Science church in any city is called First Church of Christ, Scientist, then Second Church of Christ, Scientist, and so on, followed by the name of the city (for example, Third Church of Christ, Scientist, London). When a church closes, the others in that city are not renamed. [134]
First Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 102 West University Parkway, across from the campus of Johns Hopkins University, in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States is an historic structure that on December 27, 1982, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the administrative headquarters and mother church of the Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as the Christian Science church. Christian Science was founded in the 19th century in Lynn, Massachusetts , by Mary Baker Eddy with the publication of her book Science and Health (1875).
First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1901, is an historic Mission Revival-style Christian Science church located at 3606 Lemon Street in Riverside, California. It has been called: "the church that introduced Christian Science to Southern California." [3] It was designed by noted Los Angeles architect Arthur Burnett Benton. [4]
Construction of the church building began in May of 1907, and was finished on July 28th, with the church being dedicated debt-free. [4] On October 2, 1973, the church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [5] [6] First Church of Christ, Scientist, New Bern, is still an active Christian Science congregation. [7]
The cornerstone of the First Church of Christ, Scientist was set in 1938 in Dedham Square, next to the Norfolk County District Court and the Dedham Post Office. [1] The church was finished and opened for worship in 1939. A 1940 image of the church shows it without a steeple, which was added sometime later. [1]
The First Church of Christ, Scientist at 339 West Kaufman in Paris, Texas, is a former Church of Christ, Scientist church and an historic structure that, in 1988, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was then vacant. In 2009 it was being used by a Spanish-speaking Baptist congregation. [2]