First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of Christ, Scientist is a Christ Scientist church at 89-12 164th Street in Jamaica, NY 11432. It is one of 89 churches in Jamaica.
89-12 164th Street, Jamaica, NY, 11432Service times
- Sunday 11am
- Wednesday 7pm
Phone: (718) 271-7041
Shares a ministry location with hofcnyc.org.
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 — 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 4,600 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: 41.6%
- Food Insecurity: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (17.3–31.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (5.9–15.5%)
- Child Poverty: 25.5% (11.5–39.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (5.3–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ, Scientist
- hofcnyc.org — 0 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.1 mi away in New York, NY
- Jamaica 1st Ward — 0.1 mi away in New York, NY
- Jamaica Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia ACM de Queens — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Jamaica Hispanic 7Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away in New York, NY
- St Stephens Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany French Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Elmont, NY
- First Reformed Church of Jamaica — 0.2 mi away in New York, NY
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