They initially met informally in members' homes, but in 1895 they formally organized and began to meet in the Gates of Heaven Synagogue on West Washington.

In 1918 a group broke off from the congregation and formed Second Church of Christ Scientist in Madison, meeting at 263 Langdon Street, but in 1927 they merged back together.

)[3] A paper at the time described the new building:...the church on Wisconsin Avenue [was] built with dignified simplicity and grace along the lines of Georgian architecture...

Built to accommodate 850 people, the most imposing edifice is equipped with opera-like seats in walnut brown to blend with the speaker's pulpit.

Large stone pillars quarried in one place, the only kind in the city, grace the entrance lending an attractive colonial atmosphere.