Tenth Church sponsored a lecture on Thursday, October 5 entitled Counteracting Terrorism-The Global Reach of Prayer by Kari Mashos, CSB. Our preparatory meeting was held in the reading room on Tuesday, September 12, and the support materials are here. For the lecture flyer, click here.
ChristianScience.com new website
The Mother Church has redesigned the church website, as announced in a recent email:
Our Church website, ChristianScience.com, has a fresh new look and feel. An initiative of the Christian Science Board of Directors, the redesigned website offers a quiet and thoughtful space for people to explore Christian Science today through our Pastor, publications, activities, and events, and to discover a healing perspective on world issues and ideas.
When you have a chance, take a look. It’s a refreshing update.
New CSNYC.COM Website
The website csnyc.com has a sharp new look, thanks to Nate Ouderkirk, a longtime, former member of Tenth Church. The Kitchen Knife Guru has been busy honing his website development skills, and the results are impressive. Several cuts above the average site, it’s a slice of fresh air, if you get my point. That about exhausts my blade references. But check out the new website. There is a link at the footer of this website.
“The following citations…”
Have you noticed a slight change at the beginning of the lesson-sermon? If so, you may be wondering what’s going on. The brief transitional line between the Responsive Reading and Lesson-Sermon that read, “The following citations comprise our sermon” has been removed. Click here to find out why.
Board of Directors Name New Member
The Christian Science Board of Directors has announced a change to the Board. Nathan Talbot CSB, has asked to conclude his duties after nine years. Scott Preller, CSB has been named the newest Board member. Click here for the full article.
Tenth Church Renovation
In 2010, Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist New York City announced the completion of the renovation of its historic building at 171 Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village. The first services in the renewed facility were held during the summer that year.
The project, which took 7 1/2 years from conceptualization to realization, has brought a fresh, modern church facility, including a new auditorium for services, a Sunday School, and a Christian Science Reading Room, together with administrative offices to the Greenwich Village community.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder and Discover of Christian Science, provided this definition of Church in her renowned book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
Church history:
On March 14, 1919, a group of members from Christian Science churches in Manhattan met in agreement to organize Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist. The first service was held on March 23 of that year in the Chapter Room of Carnegie Hall, West 57th Street. After two years in various locations, Tenth Church decided to move to the vicinity of Washington Square, as there was no Christian Science church in Manhattan below 42nd Street. On July 10, 1921, the first service was held in a room at 21 East Eighth Street, but increased membership and attendance demanded an enlargement of borders, and in 1923 new quarters were found on Waverly Place.
Building Facts:
The building, originally a factory constructed in 1891, was designed by Renwick, Aspinwall &Russell. In its early years, the six story structure was used as a printing plant. Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, purchased it in 1927, and renovated it to include a first floor auditorium and second floor Reading Room, Sunday School and church offices. In 1966, with a desire for a more up-to-date look and more useful facilities, the Church again renovated the lower floors of the Church, with modernist architect Victor Christian Janer giving it a starkly modern design. Throughout the building’s life as a church, the upper floors of the building were never used.
In 2000, as building systems became increasingly antiquated, and the large building’s upkeep a drain on church finances, the Church explored whether to move or to find an on-site solution. It ultimately decided to convert the building into condos, selling the upper floors to a developer – Property Markets Group. for conversion into apartments, and completely redesigning the lower floors for church purposes. It commissioned the firm of Hanrahan Meyers Architects to carry out the design work. The project was split into two properties: Tenth Church occupies the first floor and the basement, with Hanrahan Meyers as their architects. The upper floors were sold to developers PMG who hired TRA Studios to design new residential condos.
The project entailed the removal of the 1967 modernist façade, reverting to an updated version of the original façade. The project has been supported by both the Historic District Council and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. The project was also approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Faith & Form magazine conferred the 2010 Honor award to this project, and it has also been featured by the Architectural League in their “New York Designs” program.