List of former Christian Science churches, societies and buildings

This is a list of former Christian Science churches, societies, and buildings. Following its early meteoric rise, the Christian Science Church suffered a steep decline in membership in the second half of the twentieth century. Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual of The Mother Church from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II. A 1992 study of the Christian Research Journal found that church membership had fallen from 269,000 in the 1930s to about 150,000. Some believe membership has fallen further since then, however current estimates for church membership vary widely, from under 100,000 to 600,000.
Dr. Stephen Barrett has reported that since 1971, the number of practitioners and teachers listed in the Christian Science Journal has fallen from about 5,000 to about 1,160 and the number of churches has fallen from about 1,800 to about 1,000.
The purpose of this list is to identify and quantify this decline in Christian Science institutions and those related to Christian Science, as well as catalog the buildings and spaces once used by the Christian Science Church. While it is impossible to get accurate membership figures, it is possible to determine the decline in institutions through official church publications and other sources.

Former buildings in Canada and the United States

Notes:

In the status column Relocated indicates that a church or society sold its building but did not dissolve or merge. Merged indicates that a church or society merged with another one and relocated.
The NRHP column is for National Register of Historic Places or state or local listings with the highest one for a property being indicated as follows: Yes = NRHP; CP = contributing property in an NRHP district, State =state, territorial, etc., listing; Local = county, city, etc. listing; and No = none of these listings. Country = CAN for Canada or USA for the United States

Canada

Name	Image	Location	Status	Architecture	Dates	Notes
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Lethbridge).		1203 4th Avenue, South Lethbridge, Alberta	Dissolved; building relocated		Local	-
First Church of Christ, Scientist (North Vancouver).		185 Keith Road, North Vancouver, British Columbia	Dissolved	Classical Revival, designed by Honeyman and Curtis	1925 built 1995 North Vancouver-listed	Now North Shore Bethel Christian Mennonite Brethren Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Vancouver).		1160 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia	Dissolved	Colonial Revival, designed by Matheson and De Guerre	1918 built 2003 Vancouver-listed	Now Coastal Church

Alberta

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Calgary, Alberta, 617 7th West; Note: Merged with First Church in 1944.

Manitoba

Missing from the CS Journal
* First, Brandon, Manitoba, incorporated 1906
* Society, Virden, Manitoba, incorporated as First, 1912
* Second, Winnipeg

Ontario

Toronto, Ontario:
*Second Church of Christ, Scientist, 53 Donlands Avenue
*Third Church of Christ, Scientist, 70 High Park Avenue
*Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, 245 Beech Avenue
*Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, met at the former Royal George Theatre, 1219 St Clair Avenue West

Saskatchewan

Saskatoon First, 2402 7 St E, building now mixed use commercial, church downgraded to society and meets at #2 1025 Boychuk Dr

Florida

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Fort Pierce, Florida, on January 31, 1996, sold its church edifice at 911 Sunrise Boulevard for $110,000 to The Pentecostal Church of God in America, Florida District, Inc., d/b/a Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church of God, by warranty deed recorded in Official Records Book 997, page 2392, St. Lucie County, Florida, public records, as accessed online September 5, 2007. First Church is no longer in existence.
First Church of Christ Scientist, Holmes Beach, Florida, voluntary dissolution, April 5, 2004
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lake Worth, Florida, 918 N lakeside Drive, voluntarily dissolved, May 7, 2004 The building is now the Victory Believer's Chapel

Iowa

First Church of Christ, Scientist (Fort Dodge, Iowa) is now the home of the Hawkeye Community Theatre.
First Church of Christ, Scientist is now a private residence at 25½ N. 6th Street.

Kansas

First Church of Christ, Scientist (Wichita, Kansas) is now the Grand Chapel, a nonreligious wedding venue.
Christian Science Church (Lawrence, Kansas) is now the Cat Clinic.

New Jersey

First Church of Christ, Scientist is now the Burgdorff Cultural Center and a realtor office.

Utah

First Church of Christ, Scientist is now the Provo Community Theater.

West Virginia

First Church of Christ, Scientist, 99 14th Street, is now the Agape Baptist Church.

Churches and societies that were merged into another church or society

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hollywood, Florida, with Christian Science Society (Hollywood, Florida)

Churches that were downgraded to societies

First Church of Christ, Scientist is now Christian Science Society (Grinnell, Iowa)
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hudson, New York, is now Christian Science Society, Hudson, New York.
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Oconto, Wisconsin) on the National Register, is now Christian Science Society, Oconto, Wisconsin.

Churches in transition

Alvin, Texas, First Church at 713 South Lee Street is listed for sale as vacant as of December 7, 2007. The February 2007 Christian Science Journal listed a Christian Science Society at that address.

Other related institutions and sites

Camp Sangamon and its sister camp, Camp Betsey Cox, both located in Pittsford, Vermont, were originally run by Christian Scientists for the children of Christian Scientists. Today there are no religious restrictions.
Christian Science Benevolent Association on the West Coast, was one of 2 BAs operated by the Mother Church.In 1973, it was turned over to a local group of Christian Scientists who continue to operate it as Arden Wood nursing home.
Daycroft School in Greenwich, Connecticut, closed in 1991.
Mary Baker Eddy Birthplace Monument, Bow, New Hampshire The large granite monument erected on the site was dynamited by order of the CS Board of Directors.

Former Christian Science churches, societies and buildings in Countries other than Canada and the United States

United Kingdom

The date in the "Deregistered" column is the month and year in which the building's registration for worship in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 was formally cancelled. If there is no date, the church has not been formally deregistered.

Name	Image	Location	Deregistered	Status	Notes
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bexhill-on-Sea		Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex		Demolished	An Edwardian Baroque-style church built in 1930–31. Closed in 1995 and demolished for flats in 2001.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Birmingham		Birmingham, West Midlands		In religious use	Registered as Sandon Road Methodist Church in 1999.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Birmingham		Birmingham, West Midlands		In secular use	The Grade II-listed building dates from 1848–49 and was originally a Presbyterian chapel. It is now a nightclub called Popworld Birmingham.
Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Birmingham		Birmingham, West Midlands			Associated Sunday School remained registered for worship until March 1980.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bolton		Bolton, Greater Manchester		In religious use	Now a mosque.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bradford		Bradford, West Yorkshire		In secular use	Moved to a Grade II-listed villa built between 1830 and 1840 after the original church closed was deregistered in November 1979. This closed around 2012 and the building is now used by a drug rehabilitation service and is known as The Vault.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Bradford		Bradford, West Yorkshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bristol		Bristol, Avon		Demolished
Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Bristol		Bristol, Avon		In secular use	Occupied part of a residential building.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bromley		Bromley, Greater London		Vacant	A Grade II-listed building designed in 1928 in an "inventive Neoclassical style" by William Braxton Sinclair.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Burnley		Burnley, Lancashire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bury		Bury, Greater Manchester		In religious use	Now The Manna House, used by Bury Christian Fellowship
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Buxton		Buxton, Derbyshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Camberley		Camberley, Surrey
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Cardiff		Cardiff, South Glamorgan		In religious use	Now the Crwys Presbyterian Church of Wales.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Chiswick		Chiswick, Greater London
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Colchester		Colchester, Essex
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Eastbourne		Eastbourne, East Sussex		In secular use	Registered in 1922 and rebuilt and extensively refurbished in the late 1970s by local firm Benz and Williams. The church was put up for sale in 2018 and has been converted to residential use.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Eastbourne		Eastbourne, East Sussex
First Church of Christ, Scientist, East Grinstead		East Grinstead, West Sussex		In secular use	A congregation became established in 1930 and took over a former school building, registering it for worship in 1939. It closed in 1985 and has been converted into an office.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Falmouth		Falmouth, Cornwall
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ferndown		Ferndown, Dorset		Demolished
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Gloucester		Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Halifax		Halifax, West Yorkshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hartlepool		Hartlepool, County Durham
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea		Silverhill, St Leonards-on-Sea		In secular use	A permanent church was built on Sedlescombe Road South in the Silverhill area in 1970, replacing a series of earlier buildings. It was registered for worship between April 1970 and March 1996, after which it was converted into offices; permission to demolish the building was refused in 2018.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hendon		Hendon, Greater London
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Heysham		Heysham, Lancashire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, High Wycombe		High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ilford		Ilford, Greater London
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hull		Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Leeds		Leeds, West Yorkshire		In religious use	Re-registered as the New Testament Church of God Pentecostal church in May 1985
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Leicester		Leicester, Leicestershire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Leytonstone		Leytonstone, Greater London
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Liverpool		Liverpool, Merseyside		In secular use	Registered in 1920. Not formally deregistered, but in use as a dance studio and nursery school since 1990.
Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Liverpool		Liverpool, Merseyside		In religious use	Now St Peter and St Paul's Church, used by the traditionalist Catholic group the Society of Saint Pius X. A Grade II-listed building designed by W.H. Ansell and opened in 1914.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, London		London		In secular use	This Grade II listed building on Sloane Terrace on the Chelsea/Belgravia border is now Cadogan Hall, a concert hall. The church closed in 1996. It was designed between 1904 and 1909 by Robert Chisholm.
Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, London		London		In secular use	This occupied part of a building in Hampstead.
Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, London		London		In secular use	This church was in the Putney area of the city. After closure it was altered internally and converted into flats called Bounty Hall, but from the outside it remains "an imposing building in a warm orange-brown brick... in a modern interpretation of a stripped-down Classical style".
Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, London		London		In religious use	This was located in the Brixton area and was registered in November 1931. After closure it was re-registered as the Universal Pentecostal Church.
Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist, London		London		In religious use	This Grade II*-listed building on Marsham Street in Westminster was designed between 1926 and 1930 in a Byzantine Revival style by Herbert Baker and was registered for worship in April 1930. It is now Emmanuel Evangelical Church, having been re-registered as The Emmanuel Centre in February 1997.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester		Manchester, Greater Manchester		In secular use	This was the first purpose-built Christian Science church in Britain. Construction began in 1903 and was largely complete in 1907, and the church was registered in 1910. Architect Edgar Wood's individualistic building, with a mixture of Expressionist and Art Nouveau influences, has been described as "unmatched for originality in the country". It is Grade I-listed. Although never formally deregistered, it closed in 1971 and became offices called the Edgar Wood Centre.
Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester		Manchester, Greater Manchester
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Norwich		Norwich, Norfolk
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Orpington		Orpington, Greater London
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Rochester		Rochester, Kent
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sandbach		Sandbach, Cheshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Seaford		Seaford, East Sussex
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sevenoaks		Sevenoaks, Kent		Demolished	Building demolished by 2014.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Shrewsbury		Shrewsbury, Shropshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, South Shields		South Shields, Tyne and Wear
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Stockport		Stockport, Greater Manchester
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sutton		Sutton, Greater London		In secular use	The building became the Secombe Theatre, which closed in 2016. The church congregation re-registered the former reading room building as a church in 1982, but this has also closed.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Swansea		Swansea, Glamorgan
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Torquay		Torquay, Devon
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wallasey		Wallasey, Merseyside
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Warrington		Warrington, Cheshire
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wigan		Wigan, Greater Manchester
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Windermere		Windermere, Cumbria
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wolverhampton		Wolverhampton, West Midlands
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Worthing		Worthing, West Sussex		In religious use	The church was designed in 1939 by Brundrit and Stewart and was formally registered accordingly in 1958. A hall had been built on the site on Broadwater Road in 1921, succeeding a hired hall in the town centre which had been used since 1910; the new hall was registered for worship in 1923 when the congregation had the status of a Christian Science Society. The church, an Art Deco-style brick building, remained in Christian Scientist use until its closure in 1987, after which it was sold to an Evangelical congregation which by 1998 was known as Broadwater Christian Fellowship but which became known as River of Life Church in September 2003.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Worthing		Worthing, West Sussex		Demolished	A Christian Science reading room opened in 1939 in a converted house and was registered for worship in 1940. It was replaced by a Sunday School building in 1951 and then by a purpose-built church in 1960. It closed in September 2010 and was demolished in 2015. Houses were planned for the site, but in 2013 permission was granted for the construction of a Kingdom Hall for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Missing churches in all countries

Note: Following the custom of early New England Congregational and Baptist churches, Churches of Christ, Scientist, in a city or town are numbered First, Second, Third, etc. Societies are not numbered, however. Since all churches and societies are listed in the monthly Christian Science Journal, it is possible to determine the numbers of most but not all missing churches. For example, if a city has listings for only second and fourth churches, at least the first and third are missing. As merged churches take the name of the older congregation, first could then be assumed to have dissolved, while third might have dissolved or merged with second. Fifth may have merged, dissolved, or never existed.

A-B-C

Berlin, Germany Fourth through Tenth
Birmingham, England First.
Chicago, Illinois Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth through Fifteenth.
Cleveland, Ohio Second Church.

D-E-F

Dallas, Texas First, Second, Fourth and Sixth
Denver, Colorado Second through Fifth
Duluth, Minnesota Second
El Paso, Texas Second
Evanston, Illinois, First.

G-H-I

Houston, Texas Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth.
Indianapolis, Indiana Second.

J-K-L

Jacksonville, Florida, Third.
Kansas City, Missouri First through Third, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth.
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Second.
Liverpool, England First and Second.
London, England, Fourth through Tenth
Long Beach, California Second and Third.
Los Angeles, California First, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, Fifteenth through Nineteenth, Twenty-First through Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Ninth through Thirty-Fifth, Thirty-Seventh, Thirty-Ninth, Fortieth, Forty-Second and Forty-Third churches.

M-N-O

Manchester, England First and Third.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin First and Second.
Minneapolis, Minnesota Fifth through Sixth.
New York, New York, includes Manhattan and Bronx: Fourth, Sixth, and Eleventh through Fifteenth
Oakland, California Second through Ninth.

P-Q-R

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third through Fifth.
Plainfield, New Jersey First, see Independent or secessionist churches above.
Portland, Oregon First through Fifth, Seventh and Ninth.
Pretoria, South Africa First.

S-T-U-V

Sacramento, California Third and Fourth.
Saint Louis, Missouri, Second through Fifth and Seventh.
San Antonio, Texas, Second
San Diego, California Third and Fifth.
San Francisco, California Third, Sixth through Eighth and Tenth through Twelfth.
São Paulo, Brazil, Third
Seattle, Washington Second, Fourth through Sixth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh.
Thunder Bay, Ontario First
Tulsa, Oklahoma Second through Fifth.
Tucson, Arizona Second.
Vancouver, British Columbia, First and Third