Article May 22, 1937 Issue

Among the Churches

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New York Times

New York, New York (Fourth Church).—Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Fort Washington Avenue and One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Street, was dedicated November 29, 1936, at three services, 11 a.m. and 4 and 8 p.m. The cost was $385,000 Christian Science churches are not dedicated until all debts are paid.

Fourth Church was founded in 1896 by two students of Mary Baker Eddy. The first services were held in a hall in West Eighty-second Street. In 1911 the congregation moved into the Riker Building, Broadway and Eighty-first Street. Services were held there until a plot was purchased at Fort Washington Avenue and One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Street, where a colonial style structure was started in 1914 and completed in 1918.

In 1930 the Port Authority of the City of New York bought the property for use in the approach to the George Washington Bridge. The church then purchased the present site. The new modernistic edifice was completed in May, 1932. Funds for its erection were contributed by Christian Scientists.—New York Times.

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