Christian Science Reading Room
Christian Science Reading Room is a church at 17 Lasalle St in Elsah, IL 62028.
17 Lasalle St, Elsah, IL, 62028Phone: (618) 402-2302 · Website: https://www.christianscience.secure.force.com/rrrecordpage?id=a1170000000xuroaak&qcksearchtext=none&qcksearchadvertisertype=all&onlyteachers=false&willtravel=false&searchcity=city/town&searchstate=state/region&searchcountry=&qcksearchzipcode=62028&radiusdistance=35&se
Christian Science Reading Room is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 58 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across Illinois — 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 Christian Science Reading Room
It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (2.9–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Christian Science Reading Room
- First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Grafton, IL
- Grafton Full Gospel Church — 3.8 mi away in Grafton, IL
- Grafton United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Grafton, IL
- Newbern Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 4 mi away
- Dow Southern Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- St Patrick's Catholic Church — 4.6 mi away in Grafton, IL
- Bethel Church — 5.2 mi away
- Harmony Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away in Godfrey, IL
- Melville Church — 6.1 mi away in Godfrey, IL
- True Life Community Church — 6.2 mi away in St Charles, MO
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- First Church Of Christ Scientist — 8.3 mi away in Godfrey, IL
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 11.4 mi away in Jerseyville, IL
- Christian Science Reading Room — 11.6 mi away in Jerseyville, IL