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First Church of Christ, Scientist Review
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
Religious Sites, Back Bay
Fodor's Review:
The world headquarters of the Christian Science faith mixes the traditional with the modern -- marrying Bernini to Le Corbusier by combining an old-world basilica with a sleek office complex designed by I. M. Pei. Mary Baker Eddy's original granite First Church of Christ, Scientist (1894) has since been enveloped by a domed Renaissance Revival basilica, added to the site in 1906, and both church buildings are now surrounded by the offices of the Christian Science Publishing Society, where the Christian Science Monitor is produced, and by Pei's complex of church-administration structures completed in 1973. You can hear all 13,290 pipes of the church's famed Aeolian-Skinner organ during services.
INFO
- Address: 175 Huntington Ave., Back Bay, Boston, MA
- Phone: 617/450-3790
- Web site
- Cost: Free
- Open: Services Sept.-June, Sun. at 10 AM and 7 PM; July and Aug., Sun. at 10 AM, Wed. at noon and 7:30 PM
- Metro: Hynes/ICA, Symphony
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