General view of the interior of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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General view of the interior of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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General view of the interior of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
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The First Church of Christ, Scientist, known as the Mother Church, stands on Huntington Avenue in Boston's Back Bay and is the spiritual center of the Christian Science movement. The congregation, organized in 1879, built its first edifice in the 1890s and later added a much larger extension, so the interior shown here reflects a building that was expanded to hold the growing membership. This view, credited to the Boston photographers Tebbs and Knell and dated around 1923, shows the seating and furnishings as worshipers of the period would have known them. It is a useful record of the sanctuary before later changes to the complex.
| Created / published | c1923 May 7. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930 |
| Notes | J261952 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal per Photoduplication Service. Copyright by Tebbs and Knell. |
| Subjects | First Church of Christ, Scientist (Boston, Mass.)--Buildings--1920-1930. Christian Science churches--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Interiors--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166796 |
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