First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church in Cortland, NY 13045. It is one of 32 churches in Cortland.
Cortland, NY, 13045Shares a ministry location with Vision Church.
First Church of Christ Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 71 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across New York — 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (20.0–38.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (0.2–13.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Cortland city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,351 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- Vision Church — 0 mi away
- United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland — 0.2 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Anthonys Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Modern Day Reformation — 0.4 mi away
- Bride of the King Ministries — 0.4 mi away in Marathon, NY
- Christian Assembly Italian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 19.5 mi away in Ithaca, NY