Article March 14, 1901 ISSUE

Among the Churches

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.

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