First Church of Christ, Scientist (Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania)

Infobox Historic building


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name=First Church of Christ, Scientist
location_town=Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania
location_country=United States
architect=Charles Draper Faulkner
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completion_date=1939
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style=Colonial Revival|

First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1939, is an historic redbrick Colonial Revival style Christian Science church located at 1100 Washington Road in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Its entrance portico is supported by 6 Corinthian columns on the front and 4 on the rear. The steeple is centered behind the portico. Its auditorium has convert|18|ft|m|sing=on high plain glass arched windows on either side. Like most Christian Science churches, the focal point of its auditorium is the readers' platform with its double lectern to accommodate the two Readers who conduct the service. It was designed by noted Chicago-based architect Charles Draper Faulkner, who was renowned for the churches and other buildings that he designed in the United States and Japan. He designed over 33 Christian Science church buildings and wrote a book called "Christian Science Church Edifices" which features this church as well as many others. [ [http://www.mkedcd.org/planning/hpc/reports/FourthChurchChristScientist.pdf Historic Designation study report] ] [Faulkner, Charles Draper, "Christian Science Church Edifices" second edition, 1946, Chicago: self published, 417 pp. with numerous, photos, sketches, diagrams, charts, etc.] ] [ [http://mtlebanon.org/DocumentView.asp?DID=2220 Conti, John, "God's Own Mansions", Mt. Lebanon magazine, November 2002, pp. 23-27.] ]

In 2002, "Mt. Lebanon magazine" featured First Church of Christ, Scientist, along with 3 other local churches in an article on Colonial style churches. [ [http://mtlebanon.org/DocumentView.asp?DID=2220 Conti, John, "God's Own Mansions", Mt. Lebanon magazine, November 2002, pp. 23-27.] ]

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Mt. Lebanon, is still an active Christian Science church.

ee also

* First Church of Christ, Scientist (disambiguation)

References

Resources

* Faulkner, Charles Draper, "Christian Science Church Edifices" second edition, 1946, Chicago: self published, has a plot plan on p. 68 and pictures of the church's exterior and interior on pp. 162, 164, 166, 168 and 296.

External links

* [http://mtlebanon.org/DocumentView.asp?DID=2220 Conti, John, "God's Own Mansions", Mt. Lebanon magazine, November 2002, pp. 23-27.]
* [http://www.christianscienceusa.com/pamtlebanon.html First Church of Christ, Scientist (Mt. Lebanon) website]