First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a Christ Scientist church at 235 Scarborough Street in Hartford, CT 06105. It is one of 177 churches in Hartford.
235 Scarborough Street, Hartford, CT, 06105Phone: (860) 236-4676 · Website: https://christiansciencect.org/hartford
Shares a ministry location with Christian Science Reading Room.
First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 19 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across Connecticut — 992 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (4.3–13.1%)
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (9.3–25.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Hartford city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 1,552 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0 mi away
- All Saints Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Christian Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Unitarian Society of Hartford — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.4 mi away in West Hartford, CT
- Grace Tabernacle Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Salvation Army ARC — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Church of Deliverance — 0.6 mi away
- North United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- Christian Science Reading Room — 2.2 mi away in West Hartford, CT
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 7.4 mi away in Glastonbury, CT
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