Article March 31, 1951 Issue

Church Dedications

Note: Christian Science churches are dedicated only when free from debt.

Reading Times

Reading, Pennsylvania (First Church).

Members and friends of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Reading, joined in the dedication of the church building at Centre Avenue and Greenwich Street in three special services on Sunday, November 19, 1950.

The present church is the fifth to be occupied by the congregation, and the first services were held in August, 1926, after the main auditorium was completed and the new church occupied officially.

The founding of the congregation in Reading goes back to 1900, when a group met in a private home at 210 South Fifth Street to study Christian Science. It organized to become a branch of The Mother Church, and the application was approved on June 19, 1900.

With the rapid growth of the congregation it became necessary to seek larger quarters, and between 1903 and 1924 the congregation moved four different times, until in 1924 the church purchased the site upon which the present edifice stands.

In 1907 the organization applied for a church charter, which was granted in September of that year and permitted the corporation to be called First Church of Christ, Scientist, Reading, Pennsylvania.

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