First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of Christ, Scientist is a church at 128 North Adams Street in Tallahassee, FL 32301. It is one of 435 churches in Tallahassee.
This church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy on the teachings of Christ Jesus and is “…designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing” (Church Manual, p.17)
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Tallahassee, Florida, is a branch of The Mother Church in Boston, MA.
128 North Adams Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32301Phone: (850) 385-1490 · Website: https://cschurchtallahassee.org/
First Church of Christ, Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 52 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across Florida — 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 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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.
- Poverty Rate: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.3–11.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Tallahassee city is served by 146 churches — about one congregation for every 1,281 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ, Scientist
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Mission Christ Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostals of the Capital City — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Mission Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
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