First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of Christ, Scientist is a Christ Scientist church at 1725 Pickens Street in Columbia, SC 29201. It is one of 535 churches in Columbia.
1725 Pickens Street, Columbia, SC, 29201First Church of Christ, Scientist is part of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family of churches in The American Church Story. 8 congregations of the Metaphysical, New Thought and Swedenborgian family gather across South Carolina — 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 about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half 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.
- Child Poverty: 72.2%
- Poverty Rate: 55.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4% (11.0–19.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near First Church of Christ, Scientist
- St. Paul’s Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.1 mi away
- Centennial Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Korean Community Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Revolution- SC UMC — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Apostles — 0.2 mi away
- Taylor Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ladson Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Midtown Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina — 0.3 mi away
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