Article March 14, 1901 Issue

Among the Churches

After nearly two years passed in erecting a house of worship, the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, is about to enter into one not often surpassed in religious architecture since the days of classic Greece and Rome. Few houses designed solely for religious observance exist in this country wherein the materials used have been limited to pure white marble, steel, bronze, and cathedral glass. None is, both in exterior and interior, elevation, fashioned of these materials.

This temple, situated at Sixty—eighth Street and Central Park West, is of white marble above the foundation of granite. The dome which arches over the auditorium is framed in with bronze, the spaces reserved for light being of fish scale design, in cathedral glass, with the word "Love" in the centre in chipped plate glass. Not a bit of masonry above the foundation is of other material than white marble. The pieces have been so closely joined as to present the aspect of an unbroken marble elevation.

The church varies from accepted designs in that it is practically a huge square, crowned with a concentric dome of noble proportions. At first the members of the society were tempted to have the rearward elevation of baser materials. Other counsels prevailed, and the four elevations are practically replicas one of the other. The sole variation is in the main entrance on Central Park West side. This is flanked by handsomely designed columns of bronze, whereon rest lamps.

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