First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of Christ, Scientist is a Christ Scientist church at 811 1st Avenue in Fairbanks, AK 99701. It is one of 69 churches in Fairbanks.
811 1st Avenue, Fairbanks, AK, 99701Shares a ministry location with Christian Science Church, Fairbanks, Alaska.
First Church of Christ, Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 5 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across Alaska — 991 across the United States on The Church Map.
Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science, Swedenborgian and Spiritualist congregations use Christian Scripture and Christian language, and read both through convictions about mind, healing, and an indwelling divine that historic Christian teaching does not share. Reference sources genuinely disagree on whether to file them as Christian at all; this map lists them and leaves the question open.
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The community around First Church of Christ, Scientist
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.1–17.2%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Food Insecurity: 19.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.5–17.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Fairbanks city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 1,709 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ, Scientist
- Christian Science Church, Fairbanks, Alaska — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Matthew's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Parish — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Northern Lights Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Fairbanks Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Gate House of Prayer — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away