First Church of Christ, Scientist (Berkeley, California)

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, now also known as Christian Science Society, Berkeley, is a Christian Science church, located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People's Park, in Berkeley, in Alameda County, California.[4]

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Berkeley Landmark No. 5
Location2619 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California
Coordinates37°51′56.75″N 122°15′21.75″W
Built1910
ArchitectBernard Ralph Maybeck
Architectural styleMixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods)
NRHP reference No.77000283
BERKL No.5
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 22, 1977[1]
Designated NHLDecember 22, 1977 [2]
Designated BERKLDecember 15, 1975 [3]

The Christian Science Society, Berkeley continues to meet in their over-100-year-old church building.[5]

History

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley held its first service in Wilkin's Hall, 2412 Haste Street, on Sunday, March 12, 1905, and its present membership— October, 1905—is forty-eight. A lot was bought (2892 Dwight Way) in June, and a church building will be erected later on.

The Christian Science Journal (December 1905)[6]

The historic 1910 church was designed by renowned architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style, with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Gothic Revival style elements.[7] The church is widely considered one of Maybeck's masterpieces.[8][9]

The basic plan is that of a square or Greek cross, with two pair of great crossed trusses spanning the central space overhead. In 1929 a Sunday School addition was added to the Church.

Landmark

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977, and is on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California.[2][10]

In October 2005, the Friends of First Church Berkeley were awarded a prestigious federal Save America's Treasurers (SAT) Grant, for the roof replacement and seismic strengthening of the 1910 Church and much of the 1929 Sunday School addition.[11] The church received a Getty Architectural Conservation Implementation Grant in 2006, to enable the completion of the seismic strengthening of the Church and Sunday School addition.[11][12] In 2009 and 2010, the Friends of First Church Berkeley received University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Grants for restoring the garden setting of the church.[11]

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