First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist is a church at 101 University Avenue in Ithaca, NY 14850. It is one of 52 churches in Ithaca.
101 University Avenue, Ithaca, NY, 14850First 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 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: 33.1% (23.1–43.1%)
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Food Insecurity: 16.1% (12.0–20.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Ithaca city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ Scientist
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lord's Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ithaca — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Biserica Ortodoxă Greacă „Sfânta Ecaterina” Ithaca NY — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Metaphysical churches nearby
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 19.5 mi away in Cortland, NY