Christian Science Reading Room

They were created to provide both a quiet place for reading, study and prayer and a means for the public to come into contact with Christian Science.

Jointly-maintained reading rooms (operated jointly by several Christian Science churches) operate in a number of locations, for example a jointly maintained room in John Street, New York City, is maintained by the Christian Science branch churches of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

[5] Reading Rooms may hold events, such as bible study groups, and may offer resources to help homeless populations in their city.

A book by Kristin Hahn speaks of "Breezing by the Christian Science Reading Rooms prominently centered on main streets all across America.

"[8] A fictional cop in a novel by Peter Plate steers a patrol car "past Siegal's Tuxedo Shop, Queen's Shoes, Discoteca Latina, The Eggroll Express, The Christian Science Reading Room, and Duc Loi's Meat and Fish Company.

A typical storefront Christian Science Reading Room on the main street of a suburb of Boston. The window displays a lamp, a large Bible open to the current reading, and copies of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures .
Aerial photograph of a triangular lot between roads and their sidewalks. The lot contains a small, Romanesque church filling the front point to the sidewalks, connected to a much larger and impressive domed, Neoclassical building behind it, filling the lot to the sidewalks to the left and right.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist. The original Mother Church (1894) is in the foreground and behind it is the Mother Church Extension (1906). [ 1 ]
A Christian Science Reading Room in New Bern, North Carolina , US