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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 ...
One of thousands of public libraries that 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie financed is listed for sale in Middletown for $124,900. Between 1886 and 1920, Carnegie donated more than $55 ...
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church. The Christian Science Board of Directors is a five-person executive entity created by Mary Baker Eddy to conduct the business of the Christian Science Church under the terms defined in the by-laws of the Church ...
The Friends of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, [33] operates the library store, on the first floor of the library's new wing. The store sells books, gifts, music, clothing, and other branded items. [26] The organization also operates a biannual sale of about 18,000 books, graphic novels, CDs, and DVDs ...
A Christian Science Reading Room was opened downtown. First Church moved in the 1970s to a new facility on Fairhaven Road in Davenport. The Harvest Time Family Worship Center was founded by the Revs. James and Cecelia Lee as the Pentecostal Deliverance Church in 1972. It was located in the 1500 block of Fillmore Street at the time.
The reading room's ceiling was the inside of the front dome, with a Georgian fireplace and French doors. [ 3 ] In 1982 the building was added to the NRHP as one of the finest church designs in Madison and as a major work of Frank Riley, one of Madison's major architects of the first half of the 20th century. [ 3 ]
Reading room may refer to: Reference library; British Museum Reading Room; Christian Science Reading Room, a place where the public can study, borrow, or purchase Christian Science literature; The Reading Room, a 2005 American television film; The Reading Room (Hasenclever), an 1843 painting by Johann Peter Hasenclever